For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D. H. LAWRENCEObscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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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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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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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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