Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.