I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCENobody 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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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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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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