The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
D. H. LAWRENCEI 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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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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 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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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