Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

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

In masturbation there is nothing but loss.