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. LAWRENCESleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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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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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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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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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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