You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
D. H. LAWRENCEAs we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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.
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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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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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