I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCEDon’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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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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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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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