Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhen 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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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Used 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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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 a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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