It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhen I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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