Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
D. H. LAWRENCEAnd besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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We fucked a flame into being.
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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.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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