My Life and Loves Quotes

“Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it is what I take as a guide page.”
― Frank Harris, My Life and Loves

“The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.”
― Frank Harris, My Life and Loves

“(...) the easiest to conquer were also more worthy of it, because women have better intuition than men for the love affinity.”
― Frank Harris, My Life and Loves

“I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.”
― Frank Harris, My Life and Loves

“For the first time, vague doubts assaulted me, the shattering suspicion that for all pleasure and joy in life we had to pay ... I repel fear. If I had to pay I would pay, after all, the memory of ecstasy while pungisse its pain could never be erased.”
― Frank Harris, My Life and Loves

“What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.”
― Frank Harris, My Life and Loves

“(...) always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.”
― Frank Harris, My Life and Loves

“«Vae victis ha sido nuestro lema, y los resultados han sido escalofriantes. Es evidente que hemos llegado al fin de una etapa y que debemos pensar en el futuro.

»La religión que ha dirigido, real o supuestamente, nuestra conducta durante diecinueve siglos, ha sido descartada. Hasta el divino espíritu de Cristo fue arrojado lejos por Nietzsche, como quien tira el hacha después del mango o, para usar una mejor analogía alemana, al niño junto con el agua del baño.

»La estúpida moral sexual de Pablo ha desacreditado todo el Evangelio: Pablo era impotente; de hecho alardeaba de no sentir deseos sexuales y deseaba que todos los hombres fuesen como él en este aspecto, del mismo modo que el zorro de la fábula que, habiendo perdido su cola, deseaba que todos los otros zorros fueran mutilados de la misma manera, para alcanzar su perfección...»”
― Frank Harris, My Life and Loves

“There are two main traditions of English writing: the one of perfect liberty, that of Chaucer and Shakespeare, completely outspoken, with a certain liking for lascivious details and witty smut, a man’s speech; the other emasculated more and more by Puritanism and since the French Revolution, gelded to tamest propriety; for that upheaval brought the illiterate middle-class to power and insured the domination of girl readers. Under Victoria, English prose literally became half childish, as in stories of «Little Mary,» or at best provincial, as anyone may see who cares to compare the influence of Dickens, Thackeray and Reade in the world with the influence of Balzac, Flaubert and Zola.”
― Frank Harris, My Life and Loves