It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
From D. H. Lawrence
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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.
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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