He 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.
D. H. LAWRENCEBut better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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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 God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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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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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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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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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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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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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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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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