And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal. Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at least, Clifford was shifting his grip from her on to Mrs Bolton. He did not know it. Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of, the great desert tracts in his consciousness. . D.h. Lawrence
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  1. For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
  2. Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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  4. A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
  5. 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...
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