Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
D. H. LAWRENCEHe knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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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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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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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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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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