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.
D. H. LAWRENCEDon’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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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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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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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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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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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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