The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
D. H. LAWRENCEI never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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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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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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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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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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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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