The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
D. H. LAWRENCEI fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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