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Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.

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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man,...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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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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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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Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organi...more

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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

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I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it ha...more