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.
D. H. LAWRENCEPerhaps 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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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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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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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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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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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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