For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D. H. LAWRENCEWe’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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.
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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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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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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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