The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
D. H. LAWRENCEHow she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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We fucked a flame into being.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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