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.
D. H. LAWRENCEDon’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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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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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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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