Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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Things 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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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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