For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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.
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.
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.
I shall always be a priest of love.
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.
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
