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.
D. H. LAWRENCEHe felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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Don’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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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