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.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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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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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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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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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