There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
D. H. LAWRENCEIt’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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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.
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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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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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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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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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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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