They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
D. H. LAWRENCEGive up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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