D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 22

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• I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.

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  Sorry, Wild Things, Feels

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• The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness.

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  Animal, Love Is, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7472, Delphi Classics

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• It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.

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  Tin, Sardines, Hard

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• No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

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  Being Yourself, Being Single, Cosmos

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8420, Delphi Classics

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• I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.

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  Men, Play, Novelists

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• there is no pornography without a secrecy.

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  Secrecy, Pornography

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• Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

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  Sleep, Perfect, Beloved

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.74, 谷月社

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• Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

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  Issues, Confusion, Trying

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

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• We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.

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  Life, Rain, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6884, Delphi Classics

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• It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

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  Self, Devil, Casting

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9058, Delphi Classics

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• We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

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  Christian, Jesus, Father

  D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

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• Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

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  Men, Life And Death, Laughing

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.431, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.

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  Sex, Stars, Passion

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• Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

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  Religious, Men, Religion

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.165, Cambridge University Press

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• I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

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  God, Religious, Art

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.519, Cambridge University Press

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• The glamour
  Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
  Down in the flood of remembrance.

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  Music, Maturity, Remembrance

  'Piano' (1918)

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• I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

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  Bible, Wisdom, Flames

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• The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.

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  Wisdom, Science, Egypt

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• Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

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  Sympathy, Courage, Men

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• I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

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  Hate, Tragedy, Literature

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• The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.

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  Jobs, Real, Mind

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• [During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

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  Father, Race, Europe

  D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert (2002). “Twilight in Italy and Other Essays”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

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  Art, Book, Reading

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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• To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

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  Puritan, All Things

  'Etruscan Places' (1932) 'Cerveteri'

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• And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

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  Broken Heart, Wall, Break Out

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