The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
D. H. LAWRENCEThere’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 can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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