Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D. H. LAWRENCEOne could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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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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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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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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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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