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.
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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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