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–
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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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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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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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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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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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