Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

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

Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." "And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunken delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.