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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.

D. H. Lawrence

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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Goodness Happiness Live Yourself
How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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Animal Herself Himself Listen Love
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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Deep Desire End Philosophy
There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Secret Sex
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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Age Feeling Ourselves Reality
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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Creation Story Trust
Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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Civilization Education Life Money
Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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Alone Leaving Myself Yourself
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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Alone People Reality Togetherness
We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Fall Hard Time Inspirational Live
Don’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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Beautiful Empty People World Yourself
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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Flower Love Yourself
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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Love Luxury Man Poor Satisfaction Woman
Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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Imagination Love Philosophy Relationship Yourself
She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Death Herself Shame Woman
What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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Existence Eyes Mindset See
Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Deep Relationship Silence Word
If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Herself Woman
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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Believe Beyond Future Power Yourself
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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Kill Man Ourselves Right World
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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Establishment Greatness Heart Ideal Religion
If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Alone Himself People
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Fear Himself Oneself People
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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Deal Goodness Journey Learning Love Oneself Soul Suffering
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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Hate Herself Live Word
A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Man World
They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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Herself Himself Love Togetherness

The human soul needs beauty more than bread.

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