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.
D. H. LAWRENCEHe felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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