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–
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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Be 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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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