Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
D. H. LAWRENCEUsed 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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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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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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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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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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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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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