We fucked a flame into being.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhen 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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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