D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 5

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• When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Elements, Wonder Of Life

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nature, Tree, Sunlight

  D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.224, Cambridge University Press

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• For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Flower, Men

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

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• If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ifs

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.125, 谷月社

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Oxygen, Two

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

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• When I went to the scientific doctor
  I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me
  and reduce me to the level of a thing.
  So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Morning, Doctors, Lust

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6965, Delphi Classics

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Jewels, Profound

  "Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

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• Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Animal

  Women in Love (1920) ch. 11

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Two

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nature, Flower, Roots

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

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dog, Men, Pet

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

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• A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Religion, Atheism

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• When science starts to be interpretive
  it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Accounts, Mysticism

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.412, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Connections, Cosmos, Earth

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

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sexy, Sex, Sensual

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

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moon, Dragons, Blood

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

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• A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Reading, Long

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Perfection, Can Do

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• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Money, Literature, Madness

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

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• When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dust, Turns, Substitution

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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

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• Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Feelings, Age

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8441, Delphi Classics

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• When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

  D. H. Lawrence

  People, Lovely, Language

  Pansies (1929) "When I Read Shakespeare"

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• I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Effort, Together, Want

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.1156, D. H. Lawrence

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