Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
D. H. LAWRENCEI love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of 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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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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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