It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
D. H. LAWRENCEThey 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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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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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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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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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