Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
D. H. LAWRENCEAs we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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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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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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 fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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