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Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.

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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forci...more

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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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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 du...more

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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...more

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Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.

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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, lat...more

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Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling....more

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Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them....more

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To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help...more

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This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That g...more

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It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At ...more

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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

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The last year of her college career was wheeling slowly round. She could see ahead her examination and her departure. She had the ash of disillusion g...more

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Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the u...more