Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.