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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. (D. H. Lawrence)
He talked to her endlessly about his love of horizontals: how they, the great levels of sky and land in Lincolnshire, meant to him the eternality of the will, just as the bowed Norman arches of the church, repeating themselves, meant the dogged leaping forward of the persistent human soul, on and on, nobody knows where; in contradiction to the perpendicular lines and to the Gothic arch, which, he said, leapt up at heaven and touched the ecstasy and lost itself in the divine. View quote
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I suppose that's what we do in death⎯⎯⎯sleep in wonder. View quote
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The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea. Quick little splinters of life, their little lives are fun to them in the sea. View quote
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Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering palsied pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery its a marvel they can breed. They can nothing but frog-spawn - the gibberers! God, how I hate them! God curse them, funkers. God blast them, wish-wash. Exterminate them, slime. I could curse for hours and hours - God help me. View quote
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It's the man who dares to take, who is independent, not he who gives. View quote
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Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms. View quote
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Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! View quote
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It was in 1915 the old world ended. View quote
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The Rhine is still the Rhine, the great divider... Immediately you are over the Rhine, the spirit of place has changed... It is as if the life had retreated eastwards. As if the Germanic life were slowly ebbing away from contact with western Europe, ebbing to the deserts of the east. View quote
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I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers. (D. H. Lawrence)
To be rid of our individuality, which is our will, which is our effort⎯⎯⎯to live effortless, a kind of curious sleep⎯⎯⎯that is very beautiful, I think; that is our after-life⎯⎯⎯our immortality. View quote
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And dimly she realized one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, which does not kill the body, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only appearance. It is really only the mechanism of the reassumed habit. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst. View quote
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's. View quote
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. View quote
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. View quote
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. View quote
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. View quote
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. View quote
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. View quote
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. (D. H. Lawrence)
People always make war when they say they love peace. View quote
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. View quote
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. View quote
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. View quote
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