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.
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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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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We fucked a flame into being.
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