"That's our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money and then the money gives out. If you could tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could be happy on twenty-five shillings a week."
"He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself. He was not afraid of himself. But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent partly-insane beast."
-DH Lawrence
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Life Philosophy
On living:
"Not somewhere - anywhere. One should just live anywhere - not have a definite place. As soon as you get a room and it is complete, you want to run from it."
"You have to be like Rodin, Michelangelo, and leave a piece of raw rock unfinished to your figure. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside."
On love:
"He wanted so much to be free, not under the compulsion of any need for unification, or tortured by unsatisfied desire. Desire and aspiration should find their object without all this torture, as now, in a world of plenty of water, simple thirst is inconsiderable, satisfied almost unconsciously. And he wanted to be with Ursula as free as with himself, single and clear and cool, yet balanced, polarised with her. The merging, the clutching, the mingling of love was madly abhorrent to him."
"Why should we consider ourselves, men and women, as broken fragments of one whole? It is not true. We are not broken fragments of one whole. Rather we are the singling away into purity and clear being, of things that were mixed. Rather the sex is that which remains in us of the mixed, the unresolved."
-From Women in Love by DH Lawrence
"Not somewhere - anywhere. One should just live anywhere - not have a definite place. As soon as you get a room and it is complete, you want to run from it."
"You have to be like Rodin, Michelangelo, and leave a piece of raw rock unfinished to your figure. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside."
On love:
"He wanted so much to be free, not under the compulsion of any need for unification, or tortured by unsatisfied desire. Desire and aspiration should find their object without all this torture, as now, in a world of plenty of water, simple thirst is inconsiderable, satisfied almost unconsciously. And he wanted to be with Ursula as free as with himself, single and clear and cool, yet balanced, polarised with her. The merging, the clutching, the mingling of love was madly abhorrent to him."
"Why should we consider ourselves, men and women, as broken fragments of one whole? It is not true. We are not broken fragments of one whole. Rather we are the singling away into purity and clear being, of things that were mixed. Rather the sex is that which remains in us of the mixed, the unresolved."
-From Women in Love by DH Lawrence
Monday, July 7, 2008
Quotes from my self-appointed readings
"Better a thousand times take one's chance with death, than accept a life one did not want. But best of all to persist and persist and persist for ever, till one were satisfied with life."
"But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions."
-D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
"But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions."
-D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
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