Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
D. H. LAWRENCEMankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
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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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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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What 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.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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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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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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