For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D. H. LAWRENCEOne could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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