Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. LAWRENCEI 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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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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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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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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.
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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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