I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.David Herbert Lawrence
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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