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.
D. H. LAWRENCENever was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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