Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. Weβve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. β¨ D.H. Lawrence (2013). Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated), p.3688, Delphi Classics
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- Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of hersel β¦ βΆ
- no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant β¦ βΆ
- Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too. β¨ D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). Sea and Sardinia, p.32, Cambridge U β¦ βΆ
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