If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in 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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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 would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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