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.
D. H. LAWRENCESometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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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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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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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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