The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe 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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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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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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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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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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–
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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