I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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When 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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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 want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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