If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
D. H. LAWRENCEShe would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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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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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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