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"Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it."
"But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in."
"And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time."
"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
"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."
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
"I shall always be a priest of love."
"In every living thing there is the desire for love."
"My God, these folks don't know how to love--that's why they love so easily."
"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."
"The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection."
"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."
"We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority."
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