“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”
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“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”
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“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.”
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“One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.”
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“I shall always be a priest of love.”
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“I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.”
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“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
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“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
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“I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.”
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“Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.”
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“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”
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“Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.”
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