One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
D. H. LAWRENCEShe would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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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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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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