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.
D. H. LAWRENCEHe worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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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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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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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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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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