The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. LAWRENCEI don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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