That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
D. H. LAWRENCEShe would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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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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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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