You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
D. H. LAWRENCEThey stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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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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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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