What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Used 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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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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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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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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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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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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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