The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. LAWRENCEOne 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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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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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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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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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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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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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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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