She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
D. H. LAWRENCESleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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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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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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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 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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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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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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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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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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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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