That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
D. H. LAWRENCEAnd besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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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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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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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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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 being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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