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.
D. H. LAWRENCEI don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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 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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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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.
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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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