Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
D. H. LAWRENCEObscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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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.
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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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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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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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