The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
D. H. LAWRENCENever 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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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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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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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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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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 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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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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