D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 5

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• We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

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  Magic, Magic Of Life, Buried

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

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• We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.

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  Book, Jewels, Profound

  "Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

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• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

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  Animal, Men, Thinking

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

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  Heart, Hands, Religion

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

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  Truth, Believe, Intelligent

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

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  Men, Literature, Moral

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• [Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

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  Children, Flower, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.374, Cambridge University Press

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• The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

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  Being Yourself, Finals, Lasts

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8079, Delphi Classics

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• If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

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  Mistake, Life Lesson, Two

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• Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

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  Dog, Men, Pet

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8566, Delphi Classics

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• You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

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  Love, Pockets, Want

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.520, Simon and Schuster

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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

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  Nature, Flower, Roots

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

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• What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.

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  Connections, Cosmos, Earth

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

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  Life, Hurt, Ocean

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

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  Sexy, Sex, Sensual

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1618, Simon and Schuster

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• Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

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  Law, Creative, Forever

  D. H. Lawrence, N. H. Reeve, John Worthen (2005). “Introductions and Reviews”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.

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  Moon, Dragons, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.

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  Sex, Long, Feelings

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.240, Cambridge University Press

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• When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

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  Travel, Glasses, Ego

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• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

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  Christian, Men, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

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  Rip, Real, Snakes

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

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  Men, Perfection, Can Do

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• Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

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  Science, Oxygen, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6710, Delphi Classics

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• The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

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  Men, Emotional, Educated

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8936, Delphi Classics

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• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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  Money, Literature, Madness

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.284, ReadHowYouWant.com

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