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.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhat the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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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 don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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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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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.
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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