Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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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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