Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. LAWRENCEOne could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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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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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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