For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D. H. LAWRENCEMankind has got to get back to the rhythm of 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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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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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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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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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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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