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.
D. H. LAWRENCEA little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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