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.
D. H. LAWRENCEAnd besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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 novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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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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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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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