She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
D. H. LAWRENCEBe sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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