The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
D. H. LAWRENCEAnd besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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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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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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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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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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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 don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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