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.
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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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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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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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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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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 human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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