A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness.
Always aspire higher than you can. For, however high you aspire, you will never arrive more than halfway up the cliff of your aspiration.
Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.
Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.
But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.
Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.
However lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.
Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
Love can bear anything better than ridicule.
Money... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.
My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it
Never be so simple as to seek for happiness: it is not a bird that you can put in a cage. By so doing you will only clip its wings.
One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.
Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.
So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end.
There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.
Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do...
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