D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 8

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• The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Vanity, Broken

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8354, Delphi Classics

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• What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

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  Eye, Mind, Knows

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3700, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Flannels

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

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  Lucky, May, Rich

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• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ethical Principles, Justice, Judging

  "Medical Ethics and Humanities". Book by Frederick Adolf Paola, Robert Walker, Lois LaCivita Nixon, March 9, 2010.

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• The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

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  Equality, Liberty, Three

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.366, Cambridge University Press

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• I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

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  Cheer, Hate, Kicking

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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• They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Philosophical, Men, Matter

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3689, Delphi Classics

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• Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Emotional, False Love

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.313, Cambridge University Press

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• Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

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  World, Intricacy, Ghastly

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.2638, Book House

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• Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Psychology, World, Corpses

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• One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

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  Friendship, Real, Believe

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. Lewdness is hateful because it impairs our integrity and our proud being. The creative, spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.

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  Fate, Self, Creative

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• Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friendship, Believe, Feels

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• One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Knows

  D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• I shall always be a priest of love.

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  Love, Priests

  D. H. Lawrence (1962). “The Art of Perversity”

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• Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

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  Mean, Our Society, Idiot

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6708, Delphi Classics

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• I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

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  Stupid, Moving, Mountain

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.88, Cambridge University Press

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• Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

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  Dog, Men, Looks

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8440, Delphi Classics

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• The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fear, Real, New Experiences

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

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• There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

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  Sex, Apples, Space

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, Keith Sagar (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

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• No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

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  Lying, Lambs, Lions

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• You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

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  Mother, Hard Work, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8255, Delphi Classics

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• It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Religious, Women

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• I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Men, Ostriches

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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