Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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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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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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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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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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