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.
D. H. LAWRENCEA man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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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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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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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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