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D.H. Lawrence quotes: A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch. A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent. Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing. Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: It hurt her most of all, this failure to love him, It hurt her most of all, this failure to love him,
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her. Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Because I infinitely prefer the spontaneous spite to the concocted sugaries; Because I infinitely prefer the spontaneous spite to the concocted sugaries;
D.H. Lawrence quotes: You pluck flower after flower - it is never the flower. The flower itself - its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit. You pluck flower after flower - it is never the flower. The flower itself - its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Perhaps you're a slave to your own idea of yourself. Perhaps you're a slave to your own idea of yourself.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Cause-and-effect will not explain even the individuality of a single dandelion. Cause-and-effect will not explain even the individuality of a single dandelion.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it. You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness ... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object. Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness ... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16. I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it. You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her. She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world. Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery. Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on. 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 quotes: Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage. Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to batsBy the Ponte Vecchio ... Changing guard. At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats
By the Ponte Vecchio ...
Changing guard.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The officer sat with his long, fine hands lying on the table, perfectly still, and all his blood seemed to be corroding.- The Prussian Officer The officer sat with his long, fine hands lying on the table, perfectly still, and all his blood seemed to be corroding.
- The Prussian Officer
D.H. Lawrence quotes: In my very own self, I am part of my family. In my very own self, I am part of my family.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: [U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force. [U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done. For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going. What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Unthinkable clothing Unthinkable clothing
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth. The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution. When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically . Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically .
D.H. Lawrence quotes: But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself. I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines. It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit. The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world. Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes. I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Her eyes were like the first morning of the world, so ageless Her eyes were like the first morning of the world, so ageless
D.H. Lawrence quotes: 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. 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.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the ordinary world. You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the ordinary world.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The profoundest of all sensualitiesis the sense of truthand the next deepest sensual experienceis the sense of justice. The profoundest of all sensualities
is the sense of truth
and the next deepest sensual experience
is the sense of justice.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: She was glad of the rain's privacy and intimacy. Making She was glad of the rain's privacy and intimacy. Making
D.H. Lawrence quotes: We are so conceited and so unproud. We are so conceited and so unproud.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: I shall always be a priest of love. I shall always be a priest of love.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Yea, Paris is a festive ton a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath? Yea, Paris is a festive ton
a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy
Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?
D.H. Lawrence quotes: You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered. You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad. It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: I want the wonder back again, or I shall die. I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: It's only when the ghastly mob-sleep, the dream helplessness of the mass psyche overcomes him, that he becomes completely base and obscene It's only when the ghastly mob-sleep, the dream helplessness of the mass psyche overcomes him, that he becomes completely base and obscene
D.H. Lawrence quotes: That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate. That she bear children is not a woman's significance.
But that she bear herself,
that is her supreme and risky fate.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Where sanity is there God is. Where sanity is there God is.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate. Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: And the souls in Plato riding up to heaven in a two-horse chariot would go in a Ford car now,' she And the souls in Plato riding up to heaven in a two-horse chariot would go in a Ford car now,' she
D.H. Lawrence quotes: There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder. There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: 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. 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.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: 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. 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.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too. Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The great home of the soul is the open road. The great home of the soul is the open road.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: She was half watching, half musing. It was her constant state. Her eyes were keen and observant, but her inner mind took no notice of what she saw. She was half watching, half musing. It was her constant state. Her eyes were keen and observant, but her inner mind took no notice of what she saw.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer. No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: That curiously clean, semi-transparent look of the genteel, isolated poor. That curiously clean, semi-transparent look of the genteel, isolated poor.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: One man's meat is another man's poison,' he One man's meat is another man's poison,' he
D.H. Lawrence quotes: My God, these folks don't know how to love that's why they love so easily. My God, these folks don't know how to love
that's why they love so easily.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: She could hear a distant coughing of a sheep. She could hear a distant coughing of a sheep.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: DEMOCRACY OF TOUCH - instead of a democracy of pocket. DEMOCRACY OF TOUCH - instead of a democracy of pocket.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater. The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: His suave loins of darkness, dark-clad and suave His suave loins of darkness, dark-clad and suave
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Quite frantically, he longed not to be. Quite frantically, he longed not to be.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn ... And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn ...
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Oh, the joy-hogs! Oh 'enjoying oneself'! Another modern form of sickness. Oh, the joy-hogs! Oh 'enjoying oneself'! Another modern form of sickness.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being. The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The glamourOf childish days is upon me, my manhood is castDown in the flood of remembrance ... The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance ...
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself. Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality. An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: could feel the male in him, something cold and triumphant, could feel the male in him, something cold and triumphant,
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say 'shit!' in front of a lady. Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say 'shit!' in front of a lady.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy. The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: We fucked a flame into being. We fucked a flame into being.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The map appears to us more real than the land. The map appears to us more real than the land.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams. I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them. One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
D.H. Lawrence quotes: The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile. The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

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