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!
D. H. LAWRENCENow go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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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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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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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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