There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
D. H. LAWRENCEMan is a mistake. He must go.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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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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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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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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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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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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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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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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