The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
D. H. LAWRENCEIt’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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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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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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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 woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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