He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
D. H. LAWRENCEUsed 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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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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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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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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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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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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