D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

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It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

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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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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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How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

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The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. 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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Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

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Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

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The universe is dead for us, and how is it to come to life again? "Knowledge" has killed the sun, making it a ball of gas, with spots; "knowledge" has killed the moon, it is a dead little earth pitted with extinct craters as with small-pox.

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One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

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A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

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Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

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A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.

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When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

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I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

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Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

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Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

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One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

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Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

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The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

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A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

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If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

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Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

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But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

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The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

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It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

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If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

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Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

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You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

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Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

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