Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 11, 1885 Death: March 2, 1930
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master..
The living moment is everything..
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are o….
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 d….
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they st….
How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning..
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself..
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies..
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….
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they nev….
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken..
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to..
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense ….
We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen..
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos..
The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread..
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't..
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze..
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little..
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams..