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Women in Love (1920)
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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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If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.
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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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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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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
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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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In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty "amours," or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate?
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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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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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Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.
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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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One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.
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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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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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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
D. H. Lawrence
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Born:
September 11, 1885
Died:
March 2, 1930
(aged 44)
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