It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
D. H. LAWRENCEThat’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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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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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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