This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
D. H. LAWRENCESometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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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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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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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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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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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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