Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
D. H. LAWRENCEYou’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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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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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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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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 only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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