We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
D. H. LAWRENCEInstead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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