For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D. H. LAWRENCEOne sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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They 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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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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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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