Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhat the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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