It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. LAWRENCEThey lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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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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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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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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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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