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.
D. H. LAWRENCEBe 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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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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 want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn.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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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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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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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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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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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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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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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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