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. LAWRENCERecklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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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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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–
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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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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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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