I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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If you could only 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 manage very happily.
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You 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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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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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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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.
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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