The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
D. H. LAWRENCEThat’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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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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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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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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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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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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We fucked a flame into being.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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