I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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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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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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