A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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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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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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