Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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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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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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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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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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