Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
D. H. LAWRENCEI don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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