A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhen I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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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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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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