This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
D. H. LAWRENCEIt 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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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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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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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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