Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.