Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe human soul needs beauty more than bread.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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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 worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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