H.D. quotes

We don't have to know, only to be: let go the jumble of worn words, reason and vanity. (H.D.)
The reason is: rats leave the sinking ship but we... we... didn't leave, so the ship didn't sink, and that's madness, Lear's song that's Touchstone's forest jest, that's swan of Avon logic. View quote
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Be indigestible, hard, ungiving. so that, living within, you beget, self-out-of-self, selfless, that pearl-of-great-price. View quote
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For one moment seek a lesser beauty and a lesser grace, but you will find no peace in the end save in her presence. View quote
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