I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.