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.
D. H. LAWRENCEA woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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We fucked a flame into being.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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