One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
D. H. LAWRENCEHow she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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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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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.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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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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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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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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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