It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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 dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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