The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
D. H. LAWRENCEInstead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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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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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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