Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
D. H. LAWRENCEVitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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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’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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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn.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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