D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 20

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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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• 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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• 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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• Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

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  Party, People, House

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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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• If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

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  Cutting, Smell, Psychology

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

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  Husband, Wife, Unhappiness

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.187, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

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  Moments, Standards, Young

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3700, Delphi Classics

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• If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

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  Women, Fame, Donkey

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.570, Book House

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• In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

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  Home, Sleep, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9406, Delphi Classics

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• Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

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  Friendship, Marriage, Passion

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9049, Delphi Classics

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• I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

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  Men, Self, Suffering

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• The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

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  Strong, Responsibility, Wish

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

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  Lying, Tree, Humanity

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1009, Book House

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• The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

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  Past, Sea, Age

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

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  Fall, Winter, Hands

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• Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single beingwhich accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.

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  Love, Freedom, Yield

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• Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
  Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
  A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
  And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she
  sings.

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  Music, Mother, Children

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

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  Fighting, Men, Flames

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• So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

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  Long, Matter, Miserable

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.743, Delphi Classics

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• In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

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  Race, Dust, Civilization

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• The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

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  Egypt, Pyramids, Lasts

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• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

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  Knowing, Laughing, Atheism

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

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  Men, Lovely, Magic

  D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen (1981). “The Lost Girl”, p.299, Cambridge University Press

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