Nothing to Save

There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.

poem by David Herbert Lawrence
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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

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The Deepest Sensuality

The profoundest of all sensualities
is the sense of truth
and the next deepest sensual experience
is the sense of justice.

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

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