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. LAWRENCEShe 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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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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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.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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