The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
D. H. LAWRENCEI like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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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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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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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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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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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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