I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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He 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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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