Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
D. H. LAWRENCEOne sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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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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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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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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