I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
D. H. LAWRENCELife is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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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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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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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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