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!
D. H. LAWRENCEIt’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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