She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhat 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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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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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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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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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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