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. LAWRENCEYou love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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