The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
D. H. LAWRENCEThings 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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We fucked a flame into being.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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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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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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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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