One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
D. H. LAWRENCEThose that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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