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Religion in life is either an amusement and a soporific, or a sham and a swindle.

I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

Every man and every woman is a star.