She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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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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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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