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.
D. H. LAWRENCEEvery 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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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Those 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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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