The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
D. H. LAWRENCEI 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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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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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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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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