Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
D. H. LAWRENCEHow she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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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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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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