He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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 like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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