Things 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. LAWRENCEI like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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When 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.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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