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. LAWRENCEWhen we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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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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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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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of 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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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