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.
D. H. LAWRENCEThings men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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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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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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