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

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.

The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.