Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
D. H. LAWRENCEHow she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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