Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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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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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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