“It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
“The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.”
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.”
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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