One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
D. H. LAWRENCELife is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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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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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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 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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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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