He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
D. H. LAWRENCEI 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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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