If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
D. H. LAWRENCEMoney poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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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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We fucked a flame into being.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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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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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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