This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
D. H. LAWRENCENever 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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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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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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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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