Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
D. H. LAWRENCENow go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
D. H. LAWRENCEThings men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
D. H. LAWRENCEOne could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe dead don’t die. They look on and help.
D. H. LAWRENCEWe’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
D. H. LAWRENCEThere is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
D. H. LAWRENCEI fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCERecklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
D. H. LAWRENCEI want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor 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. LAWRENCEThey stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhen we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
D. H. LAWRENCEI can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
D. H. LAWRENCEBe sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
D. H. LAWRENCE