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.
D. H. LAWRENCEBe sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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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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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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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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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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