If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
D. H. LAWRENCEI 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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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 don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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