You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
D. H. LAWRENCEThings men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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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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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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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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