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.
D. H. LAWRENCEBut 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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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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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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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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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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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