One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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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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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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