I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
D. H. LAWRENCEYou’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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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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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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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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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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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