The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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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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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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