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.
D. H. LAWRENCEBut better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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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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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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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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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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 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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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