She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhat liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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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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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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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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