Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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