For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D. H. LAWRENCEVitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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All 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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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