D. H. Lawrence - 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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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

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

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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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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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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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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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He preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

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Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

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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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But the pressure was too great. He would have to find something to make good the equilibrium. Something must come with him into the hollow void of death in his soul, fill it up, and so equalise the pressure within to the pressure without. For day by day he felt more and more like a bubble...

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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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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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For, of course, being a girl, one's whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl's life mean?

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