It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.

The map appears to us more real than the land.

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.