music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven..

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understan….

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion..

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist..

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood..

Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither a good nor a wi….

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling t….

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep..

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one..

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world..

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter..

It seemed a good idea at the time..

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere..

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to suppo….

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what….

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere..

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door h….

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy..

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow..

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth..

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful….