If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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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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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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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 fucked a flame into being.
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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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