That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
D. H. LAWRENCETheir words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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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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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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