The profoundest of all sensuality is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it

Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do--it's not so warningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory b

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in

If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab