The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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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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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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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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