Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
D. H. LAWRENCEA woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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