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.
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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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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He 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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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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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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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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