Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. LAWRENCEI want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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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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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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