"And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale……" — D. H. Lawrence

"And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time."

— D. H. Lawrence

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She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and…
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning…
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will…
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready.…
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out…
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the…
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most…
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering,…

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"And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale……" — D. H. Lawrence

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