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Some things can't be ravished. You can't ravish a tin of sardines. And so many women are like that: and men. But the earth ... ! — D.H. Lawrence

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

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't. — D.H. Lawrence

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me. — D.H. Lawrence

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

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. — D.H. Lawrence

Then what do you feel? It's all such a nothingness, what you feel and what you don't feel." "What — D.H. Lawrence

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage. — D.H. Lawrence

But you don't fuck me cold-heartedly,' she protested.
'I don't want to fuck you at all.'
Lady Chatterly's Lover — D.H. Lawrence

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from. — D.H. Lawrence

And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't. — D.H. Lawrence

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

If only you could tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing. — D.H. Lawrence

If there weren't so many lies in the world ... I wouldn't write at all. — D.H. Lawrence

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price? — D.H. Lawrence

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. — D.H. Lawrence

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist. — D.H. Lawrence

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison. — D.H. Lawrence

In the depths of him, he too didn't want to go. But he was a born American, and if anything was on show, he had to see it. That was Life. — D.H. Lawrence

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't? ... It's the courage of your own tenderness. — D.H. Lawrence

Isn't love the most horrible thing! I think it's just horrible. it just does one in, and turns one into a sort of howling animal. — D.H. Lawrence

Any woman who doesn't have a little bit of whore in her is pretty much a dried up stick. — D.H. Lawrence

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits? — D.H. Lawrence

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. — D.H. Lawrence

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it. — D.H. Lawrence

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known. — D.H. Lawrence

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. — D.H. Lawrence

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods. — D.H. Lawrence

One is so much harder if one has a touch of the man in one, don't you think, and more able to bear things. But I'm afraid I'm all woman. — D.H. Lawrence

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. — D.H. Lawrence

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas. — D.H. Lawrence

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. — D.H. Lawrence

There's so much of you here with me, really, it's a pity you aren't all here. — D.H. Lawrence

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings? — D.H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. — D.H. Lawrence

My God, these folks don't know how to love
that's why they love so easily. — D.H. Lawrence

If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing. — D.H. Lawrence

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it. — D.H. Lawrence

If only there weren't so many other people in the world,' he said lugubriously. — D.H. Lawrence

Men don't think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted. — D.H. Lawrence

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

The dead don't die. They look on and help. — D.H. Lawrence

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

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

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

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy. — D.H. Lawrence

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

The mosquito knows full well, small as he is he's a beast of prey. But after all he only takes his bellyful, he doesn't put my blood in the bank. — D.H. Lawrence

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present? — D.H. Lawrence

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't. — D.H. Lawrence

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her. — D.H. Lawrence

God doesn't know things. He is things. — D.H. Lawrence

A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions. — D.H. Lawrence

I don't want the corpses of flowers about me. — D.H. Lawrence