The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. LAWRENCEAll 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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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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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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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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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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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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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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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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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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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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’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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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