I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
D. H. LAWRENCEThey 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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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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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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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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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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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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 nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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