Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D. H. LAWRENCEYou’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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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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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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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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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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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