She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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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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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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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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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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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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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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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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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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