There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
D. H. LAWRENCEYou can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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