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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Man Revenge Woman
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.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Animal Goodness Sea Yourself
She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Death Herself Shame Woman
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.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Animal Beyond Flower Humanity Wings
What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Art Breathe Life Oneself
The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Beauty Food Human Need Soul
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.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Establishment Greatness Heart Ideal Religion
If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Alone Himself People
I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Discover Hate Love Myself
Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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Forever Mortal Taste Youth
One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Book Emotion Present Sick
That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Oneself Philsophy Place World
You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Believe Beyond Future Power Yourself
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.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Hands Life Man Touch Transformation Weakness
Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Alone Leaving Myself Yourself
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.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Game Important Old People

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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