Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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That’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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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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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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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