This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
D. H. LAWRENCEI 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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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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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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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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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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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 would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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