D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 17

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• Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

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  Dream, Sleep, Reflection

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.359, Cambridge University Press

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• The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.

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  Passion, Abiding, Affectionate

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

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  Sex, Men, Ideas

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3540, Delphi Classics

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• ... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

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  Depression, World, Want

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1405, Delphi Classics

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• The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

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  Perfect, Judging, Soul

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8312, Delphi Classics

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• The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.

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  Men, White Man, America

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• Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

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  Should Have, Fading, Belief

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Sons and Lovers”, p.367, BookRix

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• He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

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  Education, Religious, Building Up

  D. H. Lawrence, David Farmer, David R. Farmer, Lindeth Vasey, John Worthen (1987). “Women in Love”, p.495, Cambridge University Press

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• If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing.

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  Nature, Sex, Believe

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3922, Delphi Classics

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• Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

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  Believe, Men, Wish

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

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  Jesus, Religion, Dry

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning it was not a Word, but a chirrup.

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  Crush, Time, Jesus

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

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  Insanity, Neurosis, Causes

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.5109, Delphi Classics

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• And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

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  Nice, Rain, Love You

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8237, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

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  Hopeless

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.126, Courier Dover Publications

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• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

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  Struggle, Joy, Needs

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• I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

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  Liberty, Individual, Esteem

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• Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

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  Children, Giving Up, And Love

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• I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

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  Men, Air, Water

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3924, Delphi Classics

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• Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

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  Art, Plato, Liars

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.14, Cambridge University Press

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• So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

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  Civilization, Knowing, Long

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1663, Simon and Schuster

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• Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

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  Names, Married, Sin

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3927, Delphi Classics

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• Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

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  Marriage, Stars, Cosmos

  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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• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

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  Selfish, California, Effort

  "The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts". Book by D. H. Lawrence, Vol. 4, 1987.

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• I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

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  Love, Running, Fate

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.247, Cambridge University Press

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