For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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