It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
D. H. LAWRENCEUsed to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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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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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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