When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhat 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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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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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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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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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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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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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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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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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