Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
D. H. LAWRENCEHe worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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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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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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We fucked a flame into being.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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–
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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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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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