For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D. H. LAWRENCEIf a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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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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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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