A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
D. H. LAWRENCEIf only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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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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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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