All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
D. H. LAWRENCENow go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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We fucked a flame into being.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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