A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.
Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.
What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.
And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.
The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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.
The source of all life and knowledge is in # man and # woman , and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge , man-being and woman-being.
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.
Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.
There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.
God is only a great imaginative experience.
Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.
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