All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
D. H. LAWRENCEThis is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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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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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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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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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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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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