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. LAWRENCEAll that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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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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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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