We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
D. H. LAWRENCEThey 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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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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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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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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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If 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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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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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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.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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