Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor 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 don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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 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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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