You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
D. H. LAWRENCEBut 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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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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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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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