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. LAWRENCEMoney poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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