You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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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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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.
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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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