As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
D. H. LAWRENCEThe 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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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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