A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
D. H. LAWRENCEI am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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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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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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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.
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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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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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