The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
D. H. LAWRENCEHow 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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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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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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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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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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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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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