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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

D. H. Lawrence

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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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  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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  But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

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  Man is a mistake. He must go.

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  Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.

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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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  I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.

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  If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

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  Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

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  It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

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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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  Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

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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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  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.

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  I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.

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