But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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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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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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