Men and women should stay apart till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
Men and women should stay apart till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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Men and women should stay apart till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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 later not a lesser but a greater thing.
My great religion is a belief in the blood the flesh as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together adding to it shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final it seems but must always be undergoing modification.
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
The fairest thing in nature a flower still has its roots in earth and manure.
Reason is a supple nymph and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.