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.
D. H. LAWRENCEIt 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.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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How 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 human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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