Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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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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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 human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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