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.
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 don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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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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