She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
D. H. LAWRENCEObscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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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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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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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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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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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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