We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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’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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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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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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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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