How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhen I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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The 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.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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We fucked a flame into being.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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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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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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