It 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.
D. H. LAWRENCEI 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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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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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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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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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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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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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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