She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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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?
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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 don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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