The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
D. H. LAWRENCEWe fucked a flame into being.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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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 beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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