D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 10

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• Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

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  Book, Feelings, Criticism

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.209, Cambridge University Press

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• A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

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  Art, Museums, Hands

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7617, Delphi Classics

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• How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.

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  Strong, Flower, Future

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6265, Delphi Classics

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• The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

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  Men, World, Idiot

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.361, D. H. Lawrence

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• [Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

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  America, Deceit, Literature

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• Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

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  People, Hypocrisy, Used

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3740, Delphi Classics

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• Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.

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  Marriage, Wisdom, Love You

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• But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

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  Real, Parent, Feelings

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8442, Delphi Classics

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• We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

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  Sunset, Fire, Water

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• An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

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  Strong, Men, Artist

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• [U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

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  Women, Safe, Belief

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

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  Fall, Autumn, Snow

  Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 3 Oct. 1924, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 2, p. 812

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• She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.

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  Mom, Mother, Strong

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• All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

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  Sleep, Romantic Love, Past

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.180, D. H. Lawrence

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• 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.

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  Book, Men, Alive

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

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• Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

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  Rome, America, Evil

  1923 'Cypresses'.

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• And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

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  Passion, Hymns, White

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Amores: Top Novelist Focus”, p.29, 谷月社

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• I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

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  Falling In Love, Men, Falling In Love With You

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

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  Land, Sorrow, Gold

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.160, Wordsworth Editions

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• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

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  Mean, Thinking, Who Cares

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• For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.

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  Life, Flower, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

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• When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

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  Equality, Unique, Differences

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

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  Forever, Body, Forget

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.247, Cambridge University Press

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• God is only a great imaginative experience.

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  God, Fake People, Atheism

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

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  Self, May, Language

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.238, Cambridge University Press

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