Only youth has a taste of immortality.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not...
And her soul died in her for fear: she knew she had never seen him, he had never seen her, they had met in the dark and had fought in the dark, not knowing whom they met nor whom they fought.
Of course , if I am nothing but an ego, and woman is nothing but another ego, then there is really no vital difference between us. Two little dolls of conscious entities, squeaking when you squeeze them. And with a tiny bit of an extraneous appendage...
When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand. (Women in Love)
And who should have the money, indeed, if not your wives? They have everything to do with the money. What idea have you, but to waste it!" "Women waste nothing--they couldn't if they tried," said Aaron Sisson.
The young man, perched insecurely in the slender branches, rocked till he felt slightly drunk, reached down the boughs, where the scarlet beady cherries hung thick underneath, and tore off handful after handful of the sleek, cool-fleshed fruit. Che...
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.
Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything would co...
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night
And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.
