What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
D. H. LAWRENCEWhat one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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 am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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