D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 13

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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.

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  Hands, Melting, Faces

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

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• If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

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  Insanity, Idiot, Lost

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.476, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

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  Doors, Knobs

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.187, Courier Dover Publications

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• You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.

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  Sister, Mother, Sex

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.5231, Delphi Classics

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• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

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  Literature, Forget, Consciousness

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

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• That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

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  Experience, Daily Life, Life Is

  D. H. Lawrence, Book House (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.805, Book House

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• Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.

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  Soul, Wonder, My Soul

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

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  Art, Vision, Alive

  "The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence".

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• An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

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  Men, Artist, Ordinary

  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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• I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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  Important, Letters, Letter Writing

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.

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  Air, Would Be, Littles

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

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  Men, Sea, Rainbow

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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• The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

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  Cutting, Arses, Body

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

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  Past, Waiting, Sitting

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

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  Friendship, Success, World

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9424, Delphi Classics

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• The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

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  Horse, Inspiration, Movement

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

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  Country, Hate, Conceited

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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• It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

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  Art, Sake

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• Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

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  Tragedy, Misery, Kicks

  Letter to A. W. McLeod, 6 October 1912, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 1

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• I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

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  Happiness, Happy, Believe

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• One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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  Book, Reading, Emotion

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

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  Hate, Civilization, Doe

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.414, Cambridge University Press

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• I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

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  Heart, Years, Luxury

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

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  Ocean, Cities, Swamps

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

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  Too Much, Divine, Destruction

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.218, Cambridge University Press

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