But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. LAWRENCEInstead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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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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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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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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