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.
D. H. LAWRENCEYou’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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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 dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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