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.
D. H. LAWRENCEHe knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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