The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
D. H. LAWRENCEIf only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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Sometimes 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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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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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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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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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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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