Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. LAWRENCEOne could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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They 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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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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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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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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