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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

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Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.

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If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

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I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

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And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

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A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.

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It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

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He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

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One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

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Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

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The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.

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And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

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No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

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Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.

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Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

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That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

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If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

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Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

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