D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 24

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• For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sympathy, Lying, Ebb And Flow

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• Now it is autumn and the falling fruit
  and the long journey towards oblivion.
  The apples falling like great drops of dew
  to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Fall, Autumn

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6883, Delphi Classics

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• The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.

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  Real, Women, Trying

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9366, Delphi Classics

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Broken Heart, Wall, Break Out

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Puritan, All Things

  'Etruscan Places' (1932) 'Cerveteri'

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• You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blessed, Simple, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.465, Book House

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• Why does the thin grey strand
  Floating up from the forgotten
  Cigarette between my fingers,
  Why does it trouble me?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Doe, Floating, Forgotten

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4222, Delphi Classics

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• It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

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  Children, Fall, Mean

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• Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Europe, America, Lobster

  "Collected Short Stories".

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• Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Literature, Tales

  "Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays".

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• So slowly the hot elephant hearts
  grow full of desire,
  and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
  hiding their fire.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Fire, Elephants

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

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• With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Want, Sticks

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3522, Delphi Classics

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• Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dark, Men, Egypt

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• I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.

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  Passion, Long, Common Sense

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• Along the avenue of cypresses,
  All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
  Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
  The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .

  D. H. Lawrence

  Black, Gold, Cypresses

  'Giorno dei Morti' (1917)

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• Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Freedom, People, Literature

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• I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thinking, Tourists, Bombs

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
  she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
  she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
  and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Gay, Dark, Blood

  David Herbert Lawrence, “Whales Weep Not!”

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• Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

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  Hate, Ideas, Feelings

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Men, Forever

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• Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

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  Self, Pity, Ends

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7647, Delphi Classics

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• I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Australia, Perfection

  1922 Letter, 28 May.

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• And can a man his own quietus make
  with a bare bodkin?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Suicide, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6883, Delphi Classics

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• Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hands, Alcohol, Drug

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8224, Delphi Classics

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• I see a redness suddenly come
  Into the evening's anxious breast--
  'Tis the wound of love goes home!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Evening, Anxious

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications

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