Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.

there is no pornography without a secrecy.