She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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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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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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