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.
D. H. LAWRENCEMoney poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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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 fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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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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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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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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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.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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