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.
D. H. LAWRENCEI can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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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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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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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.
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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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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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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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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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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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