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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

D. H. Lawrence

If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Fall Love Moon Myself
If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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Goodness Happiness Live Yourself
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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Flower Heart Lost Save
Man is a mistake. He must go.
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Himself Leaving Let Go Man Mistake
One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Kind Laugh Oneself War World
Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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Forever Mortal Taste Youth
I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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Discover Hate Love Myself
I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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Eyes Myself Nature Perfection Sea Sun
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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Creation Story Trust
There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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Secret Sex
A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Man World
You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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Flower Love Yourself
Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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Civilization Education Life Money
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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Game Important Old People
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Better Death Life Live
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Fear Myself Reality
I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Death Flower Myself
What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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Existence Eyes Mindset See
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Writing
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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Freedom Goodness Live Man Philosophy Woman
Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Deep Relationship Silence Word
Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Deep Money Poison Yourself
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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Mad Myself Togetherness Woman
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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Lying Poet Thinking
The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Beautiful Freedom Love Woman
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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Act Sea Sex
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Evil Passionate Worst

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