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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of
life
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But better die than live mechanically a
life
that is a repetition of repetitions.
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The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of
life
. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.
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Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered
life
? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one's own
life
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A woman has to live her
life
, or live to repent not having lived it.
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No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in
life
, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death
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How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to
life
. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.
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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.
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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.
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Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human
life
. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.
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We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily
life
, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
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Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny
life
As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
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A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a
life
-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.
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It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your
life
. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your
life
. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.
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Life
and love are
life
and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.
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Your most vital necessity in this
life
is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.
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There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily
life
. Without it the world grows grey.
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The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--
life
itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.
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I love Frieda so much I don't like to talk about it. I never knew what love was before.... The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never.
Life
can be great—quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
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Good God, what does it matter? If
life
is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let
life
be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
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Marriage is the clue to human
life
, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.
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I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure
life
is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.
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The only principle I can see in this
life
, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
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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.
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Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human
life
; and the other, the leap ahead.
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We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our
life
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You're spending your
life
without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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The universe is dead for us, and how is it to come to
life
again? "Knowledge" has killed the sun, making it a ball of gas, with spots; "knowledge" has killed the moon, it is a dead little earth pitted with extinct craters as with small-pox.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of
life
, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for
life
and living.
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The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-
life
is possible.
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Life is just what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
D. H. Lawrence
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Born:
September 11, 1885
Died:
March 2, 1930
(aged 44)
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