Only youth has a taste of immortality.
D. H. LAWRENCERecklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in 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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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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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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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 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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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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.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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