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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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  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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  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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  The dead don’t die. They look on and help.

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

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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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  That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.

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  They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

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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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  All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

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  Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

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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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  Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.

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  Man is a mistake. He must go.

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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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  She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.

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  The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

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  She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

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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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  One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

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  There is no pornography without a secrecy.

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  He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.

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  I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

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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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  I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

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