I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCEBut better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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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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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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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