There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
D. H. LAWRENCEI 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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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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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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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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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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