For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D. H. LAWRENCEI never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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 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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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