Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world. |
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. |
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. |
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes. |
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. |
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. |
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff. |
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. |
Take nothing, to say: I have it! For you can possess nothing, not even peace. |
Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods. |
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. |
The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth. |
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment |
The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In |
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. |