I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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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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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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