Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
D. H. LAWRENCEOnly youth has a taste of immortality.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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