The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
From D. H. Lawrence
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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