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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

D. H. Lawrence

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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Art Breathe Life Oneself
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Writing
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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World Yourself
The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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Death Help See Spiritual
He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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Feeling Goodness Heart Himself Live Lost Misery
As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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Deep Destruction Divine
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Better Death Life Live
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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Game Important Old People
I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Death Flower Myself
She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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Herself Love
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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Beautiful Empty People World Yourself
The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Beautiful Freedom Love Woman
And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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Animal Creation Flower Nature
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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Art Live True World
I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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Feeling Money Myself Peace Poison
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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Alone People Reality Togetherness

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