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.
D. H. LAWRENCEI would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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