A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe 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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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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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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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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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