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.
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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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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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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 essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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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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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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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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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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