But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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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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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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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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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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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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