I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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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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