As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
D. H. LAWRENCEI don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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I 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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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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