8 quotes
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)
The man who is forever disturbed about the problems of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. ... The other eight are unimportant.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)
We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)