He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
D. H. LAWRENCETheir words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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