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.
D. H. LAWRENCEEvery 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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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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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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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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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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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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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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