Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. LAWRENCEA woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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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?
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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