You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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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What 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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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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 essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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