Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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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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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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