He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
D. H. LAWRENCEBe 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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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