Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.