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.
D. H. LAWRENCEIf 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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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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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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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