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.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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