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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

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The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

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When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.

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Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.

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The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

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A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water.

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Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

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The great home of the soul is the open road.

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The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

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The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

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There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

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That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

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If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

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In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

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