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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.

D. H. Lawrence

What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Lying Poet Thinking
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Lonely Lost Myself People Space
That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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Mad Myself Togetherness Woman
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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Deep Desire End Philosophy
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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Act Sea Sex
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Fear Myself Reality
How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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Animal Herself Himself Listen Love
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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Beautiful Empty People World Yourself
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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Heart Broken Love Myself
Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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Forever Mortal Taste Youth
If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Alone Himself People
One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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Book Emotion Present Sick
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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World Yourself
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Deal Goodness Journey Learning Love Oneself Soul Suffering
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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Art Live True World
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.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Act Courage Emotion Responsibility Rule Strong

It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.

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