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.
D. H. LAWRENCEHow 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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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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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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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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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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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