For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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We fucked a flame into being.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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