I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCEShe 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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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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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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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