All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe 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.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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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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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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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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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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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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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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