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

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.

When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.

We are so conceited and so unproud.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.