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“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.”
― Sons and Lovers
― Sons and Lovers
“William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.”
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“Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman.”
― Sons and Lovers
― Sons and Lovers
“...you love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.”
― Sons and Lovers
― Sons and Lovers
“He felt that she wanted the soul out of his body and not him. All his strength and energy she drew into herself through some channel which united them. She did not want to meet him so that there were two of them man and woman together. She wanted to draw all of him into her. It urged him to an intensity like madness which fascinated him as drug-taking might. He was discussing Michael Angelo. It felt to her as if she were fingering the very quivering tissue the very protoplasm of life as she heard him. It gave her deepest satisfaction. And in the end it frightened her. There he lay in the white intensity of his search and his voice gradually filled her with fear so level it was almost inhuman as if in a trance.”
― Sons and Lovers
― Sons and Lovers
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