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.
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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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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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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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