How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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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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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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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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