The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. LAWRENCEAll 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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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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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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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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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