Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
D. H. LAWRENCETheir whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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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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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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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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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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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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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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