D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 17

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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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• 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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• Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

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  Travel, Moving, Tourism

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.

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  Science, Fire, Our World

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6863, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

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  Absolutes

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, 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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• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

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  Wisdom, Blood, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

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  Spring, Real, America

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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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• 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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• For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

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  Discovery, Self, Penetrate

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.

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  Fall, Cutting, Blow

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3944, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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  Writing, Expression, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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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• In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty "amours," or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate?

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  Love, Sex, America

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9267, Delphi Classics

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• All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

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  Past, America, Tangled

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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