You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
D. H. LAWRENCEThey stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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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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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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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