A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
D. H. LAWRENCEInstead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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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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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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