The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. LAWRENCEIf I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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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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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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Vitally, 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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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 little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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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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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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