1. “...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.”
2. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
3. “"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.”
4. ”Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.”
5. “Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
6. "Imagination is thus a constitutive part of all thinking... there is no sharp distinction between the region of poetry and the region of science. Both alike are not ends in themselves, but means to higher ends.”
7. “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.”
8. “It is the infinite for which we hunger, and we ride gladly on every little wave that promises to bear us towards it.”
9. “Jealousy: That dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.”
10. “Man lives by imagination.”
11. "Our thinking would itself be fluid if it were not that by fiction we obtain imaginary standpoints and boundaries by which to gain control of the flow of reality.”
12. “Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”
13. “The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
14. “The greater the number of laws, the greater the number of offenses against them.”
15. “The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”
16. “The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.”
17. “The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
18. ”The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. “
19. “What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.”
20. “What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
21. "While it is perfectly true that sexual energy may be in large degree arrested, and transformed into intellectual and moral forms, yet it is also true that pleasure itself, and above all, sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities."
