She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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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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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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