Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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