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. LAWRENCEShe was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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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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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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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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