Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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