I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCEDon’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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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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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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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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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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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to 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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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