Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe 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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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 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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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