Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
From Havelock Ellis
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Man lives by imagination.
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