Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.
("Lady Chatterley's Lover")
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Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.D.H. Lawrence
And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.
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I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree-presences - it is almost like having another being
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What we want is some sort of communism not based on wages, nor profits, nor any sort of buying and selling but on a religion of life.
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.
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