And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe 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.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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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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The 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.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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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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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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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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