She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.

Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself