How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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I 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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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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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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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