I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCEThey stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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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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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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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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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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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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