If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
D. H. LAWRENCENever was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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What 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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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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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