For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
D. H. LAWRENCEInstead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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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–
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