That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
D. H. LAWRENCEI love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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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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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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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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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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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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