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.
D. H. LAWRENCEMankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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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.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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You’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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