The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
D. H. LAWRENCEA man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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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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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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