But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
D. H. LAWRENCEI want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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