This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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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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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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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 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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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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