A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
D. H. LAWRENCENever was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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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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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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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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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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