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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

D. H. Lawrence

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Better Death Life Live
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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Flower Heart Lost Save
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Writing
I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Death Flower Myself
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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Heart Broken Love Myself
She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Death Herself Shame Woman
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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Kill Man Ourselves Right World
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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Forever Himself Hope Necessary Past Woman
The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Beautiful Freedom Love Woman
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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Myself Sorry Wild
The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Beauty Food Human Need Soul
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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Age Feeling Ourselves Reality
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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Animal Death Feeling Myself See Wild
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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Death Greatness Human Ourselves Race Tree
One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Kind Laugh Oneself War World
A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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