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.
D. H. LAWRENCEBe 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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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