How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor 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 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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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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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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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