Only youth has a taste of immortality.
D. H. LAWRENCEMan is a mistake. He must go.
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Vitally, 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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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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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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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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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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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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