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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

D. H. Lawrence

All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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Forever Himself Hope Necessary Past Woman
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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Alive Book Bright Life Man
If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Alone Himself People
Man is a mistake. He must go.
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Himself Leaving Let Go Man Mistake
It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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Art Instagram Captions Myself Self Love
One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Kind Laugh Oneself War World
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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Art Live True World
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Writing
The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Beauty Food Human Need Soul
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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Act Sea Sex
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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Creation Story Trust
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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Flower Heart Lost Save
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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Herself Woman
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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Body Fear Mindset Resistance
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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World Yourself
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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Imagination Love Philosophy Relationship Yourself

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