I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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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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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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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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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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