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.
D. H. LAWRENCEThere is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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 don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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Be 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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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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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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