D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 15

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• If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

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  Dream, Wine, Night

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6387, Delphi Classics

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• Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.

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  Change, Fall, Dust

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.122, Xist Publishing

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• I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.

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  Believe, Simple, Men

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• Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

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  Boys, Somewhere Else, Ideas

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• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

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  Love, Positive, Negative

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.538, D. H. Lawrence

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• When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.

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  Emotional, Thinking, Soul

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• And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

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  Passion, Soul, Understanding

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.165, Courier Dover Publications

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• We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

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  Men, Jewels, Wire

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.

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  Love, Hate, Mean

  1927 Letter to Dr Trigant Burrow, 3 Aug.

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• I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

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  Writing, Plans, Knows

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• She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.

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  Powerful, Water, Sensual

  D. H. Lawrence, Mark Kinkead-Weekes (2002). “The Rainbow”, p.278, Cambridge University Press

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• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail, and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from it. . . . To love you have to learn to understand the other, more than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding of you. It is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only thing which endures.

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  Love You, Journey, Knights

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• 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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  Love You, Half, Know Yourself

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.299, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.

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  Sex, Men, Years

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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• There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.

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  Self, Soul, Phrases

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

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  Dark, Soul, Singing

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.525, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

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  Religious, Might, Should

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.526, Book House

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• Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

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  Tree, Speak, Breathe

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

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• In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

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  Loss, Masturbation

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

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• When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.

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  Fall, Passion, Squirrels

  David Herbert Lawrence (1994). “The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.397, Wordsworth Editions

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• Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.

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  Horse, Dark, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

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  Women, Function

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.91, D. H. Lawrence

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• Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

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  Religious, Elements, May

  'Hymns in a Man's Life'. Collected in Pheonix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other ProseWorks (1968).

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• Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

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  Fall, Power, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

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  Ideas, Evil, Morality

  1922 Fantasia of the Unconscious, ch.7.

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