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.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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