A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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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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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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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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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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Things 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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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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