They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
D. H. LAWRENCEShe would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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