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.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhat 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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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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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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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