The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
D. H. LAWRENCEHe knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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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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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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