As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
D. H. LAWRENCENever trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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