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.
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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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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