I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
D. H. LAWRENCEThings 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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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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 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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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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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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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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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