Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

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 near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.