I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhat 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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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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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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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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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