If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
D. H. LAWRENCEVitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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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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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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