I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
D. H. LAWRENCEThere’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.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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