Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
D. H. LAWRENCESleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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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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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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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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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.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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