When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
D. H. LAWRENCEYou’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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 don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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