I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
D. H. LAWRENCEIf 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.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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