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.
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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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’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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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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