But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. LAWRENCEThere’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.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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