It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

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.