The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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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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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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