I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCENow go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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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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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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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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