Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite ali...
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action...
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a sho...
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I...
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is...
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with...
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.