Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
D. H. LAWRENCEInstead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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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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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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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