Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
D. H. LAWRENCE
The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created 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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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