Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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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.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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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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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 want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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