The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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