Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. LAWRENCEThat’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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