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.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhat the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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Things 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.
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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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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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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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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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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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