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.
D. H. LAWRENCEOne could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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