Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
D. H. LAWRENCEShe was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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