D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 28

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• For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

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  Girl, Mean, Perfect

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1590, Simon and Schuster

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• I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thinking, America, Perfection

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• Love's a dog in a manger.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Dog

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.414, 谷月社

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• If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

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  Spiritual, Games, Hymns

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8830, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw
  The blind to hide the garden, where the moon
  Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw
  Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon.
  
  And I do lift my aching arms to you,
  And I do lift my anguished, avid breast,
  And I do weep for very pain of you,
  And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Pain, Sleep

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6178, Delphi Classics

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• They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Firsts, Steps, Common

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers”, p.197, D. H. Lawrence

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• How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Attitude, Hate, Nice

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.542, Cambridge University Press

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• You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sky, Australia, Atmosphere

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• A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Depression, Men, Hands

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

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• The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Civilization, Oneness, Age

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

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• The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Journey, Wells, Has Beens

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8130, Delphi Classics

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• The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Rest Of Life, Literature, Care

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

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• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

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  Girl, Mean, Teens

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

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  Leadership, Pride, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3409, Delphi Classics

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• There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dust, Lilies, Evolution

  D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day
  after partridges, or a little rubber ball?
  wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Class, Rubber, Balls

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.278, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
  And disgustingly upside down.
  Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
  And grinning in their sleep.
  Bats!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sleep, Rags, Bats

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.51, Courier Dover Publications

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• It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Poetry, Admitting

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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