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.
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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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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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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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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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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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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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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When 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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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