For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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