One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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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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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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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.
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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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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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