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.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhat 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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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Things 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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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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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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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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