Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
D. H. LAWRENCEI want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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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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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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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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