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.
D. H. LAWRENCEYou’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!
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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