As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
D. H. LAWRENCEThings 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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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