This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
D. H. LAWRENCEOne 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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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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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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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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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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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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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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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