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–
D. H. LAWRENCEI fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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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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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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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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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