The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
D. H. LAWRENCEHow she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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I 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 sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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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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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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