The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
D. H. LAWRENCEA woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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 can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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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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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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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