Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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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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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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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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