I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
D. H. LAWRENCEThis is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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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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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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