They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
D. H. LAWRENCEVitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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