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.
D. H. LAWRENCEThat’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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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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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.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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