“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgment is never just.”
“For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.”
“And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.”
“I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies -- thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.”
“If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.”
“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets”
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
“The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.”
“My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.”
“We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.”
“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”
“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.”
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
“Never trust the teller, trust the tale.”
“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”
“The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.”
“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.”
“The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.”
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