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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

D. H. Lawrence

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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Deep Destruction Divine
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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Game Important Old People
If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Alone Himself People
But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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Animal Beyond Flower Humanity Wings
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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Flower Heart Lost Save
If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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Goodness Happiness Live Yourself
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Kill Soul
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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Alone People Reality Togetherness
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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World Yourself
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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Act Sea Sex
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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Decision Deep Dream Myself Philosophy Result Thinking
Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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Company Perfection
The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Beautiful Freedom Love Woman
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Better Death Life Live
If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Fall Love Moon Myself
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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Be Yourself Change Herself Improvement

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