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. LAWRENCEFor 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.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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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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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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