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.
D. H. LAWRENCEI never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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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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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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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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