It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.