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.
D. H. LAWRENCEBe a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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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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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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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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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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