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.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhen I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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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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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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