What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
D. H. LAWRENCEI fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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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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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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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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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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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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