I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCETheir 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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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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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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