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.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhen 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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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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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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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