This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
D. H. LAWRENCEWe’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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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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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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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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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 beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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