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

D. H. Lawrence

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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Flower Heart Lost Save
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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World Yourself
All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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Forever Himself Hope Necessary Past Woman
That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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Oneself Philsophy Place World
She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Death Herself Shame Woman
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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Decision Deep Dream Myself Philosophy Result Thinking
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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Love Luxury Man Poor Satisfaction Woman
Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Deep Relationship Silence Word
Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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Born Children Hope
It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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Establishment Greatness Heart Ideal Religion
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Evil Passionate Worst
I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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Discover Hate Love Myself
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
If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Fall Love Moon Myself
Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Man Revenge Woman
Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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Marriage Sin Yourself
As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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Deep Destruction Divine
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
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Human Oneself Philosophy Soul Thinking
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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Alive Book Bright Life Man
And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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Animal Creation Flower Nature
Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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Book Herself Kind People Reading
He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Eyes Himself Live
We fucked a flame into being.
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One Liner Reality Sex
I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Death Flower Myself
You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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Flower Love Yourself
Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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Imagination Love Philosophy Relationship Yourself

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