He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe 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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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.
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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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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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