For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D. H. LAWRENCEA man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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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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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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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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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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