D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 12

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• A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Philosophy, Women, Repent

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Artist, Literature, Morality

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Eye, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Motherhood, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.155, Cambridge University Press

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• The source of all life and knowledge is in #‎ man and #‎ woman , and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge , man-being and woman-being.

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  Men, Two, Source

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.181, Cambridge University Press

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• You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Bits

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3955, Delphi Classics

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• She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Long, Cruelty, Belonging

  "Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

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• The tiny fish enjoy themselves
  in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sea, Tiny, Enjoy

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.221, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Beauty, Sex

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Power, Magic, Attention

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.52, Courier Dover Publications

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• What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hurt, Naked, Body

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.2502, Book House

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• She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Horse, Men, Gone

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4209, Delphi Classics

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• We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Generations, Literature

  "Selected Literary Criticism".

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• The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.

  D. H. Lawrence

  People, Insulting, World

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• The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Life, Beautiful

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

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• Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Toil

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.306, Cambridge University Press

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• How beastly the bourgeois is
  especially the male of the species

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Class, Males

  "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is" l. 1 (1929)

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• But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Literature, Repetition

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.186, Xist Publishing

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• My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

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  Love, Folks, Know How

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

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  Falling In Love, Done, Ifs

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

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• Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Flower, Ideas

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Might, Logic

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.55, D. H. Lawrence

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• An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Experience, Illusion

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4106, Delphi Classics

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• And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hands, Melting, Faces

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

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• Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Heart, Rocks

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6634, Delphi Classics

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