That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
D. H. LAWRENCEVitally, 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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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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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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.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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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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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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