D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 18

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• For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

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  Stars, Intuition, Mind

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10012, Delphi Classics

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• The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

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  Pain, Artist, Might

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• Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

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  Death, Atheism, Needs

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4113, Delphi Classics

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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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• But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful books, and be rich with them; she wanted to see beautiful things, and have the joy of them for ever; she wanted to know big, free people; and there remained always the want she could put no name to? It was so difficult. There were so many things, so much to meet and surpass. And one never knew where one was going.

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  Beautiful, Book, Names

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1234, Delphi Classics

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• Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

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  Men, Weak Man, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8467, Delphi Classics

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• For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

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  Mean, Done, Sake

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• If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

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  Literature, Vivid, Matter

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.174, Cambridge University Press

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• I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

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  Mistake, Black, Machines

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

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  Reality, Creative, Departed

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9091, Delphi Classics

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• The map appears to us more real than the land.

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  Real, Reality, Land

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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• Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

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  Paris, Towns, Resentment

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3913, Delphi Classics

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• The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

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  Wonder, Sixth Sense, Sense Of Wonder

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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  Spiritual, Punishment, Dangerous

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.29, 谷月社

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• Where sanity is there God is.

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  God, Sanity

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.388, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

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  Men, Deities, Study

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9101, Delphi Classics

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• Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

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  Home, Europe, Worn

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

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  Trying, Nails, Get Up

  'Phoenix' (1936) 'Morality and the Novel'

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• That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

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  Men, Sensitive, Know Me

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.205, D. H. Lawrence

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• I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

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  Liberty, Individual, Esteem

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• He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

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  Moon, Leader, Sun

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• He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

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  Animal, Race, Decay

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “The White Peacock: Top Novelist Focus”, p.168, 谷月社

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• The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

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  Marriage, Sphinx, Decree

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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• They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

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  Mother, Fate, Genius

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

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  Ordinary World, Creative, Virtue

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