Sunday, September 07, 2008

let's change. let's cry for no reason. let's do because we want to do. let's never stand still again, unless it changes us.

"Me, man alive, I am a very curious assembly of incongruous parts. My yea! of today is oddly different from my yea! of yesterday. My tears of tomorrow will have nothing to do with my tears of a year ago. If the one I love remains unchanged and unchanging, I shall cease to love her. It is only because she changes and startles me into change and defies my inertia, and is herself staggered in her inertia by my changing, that I can continue to love her. If she stayed put, I might as well love the pepper-pot."

- D. H. Lawrence, Why the Novel Matters

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