She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
D. H. LAWRENCEHow 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 dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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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 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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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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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 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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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