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?
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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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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