She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
D. H. LAWRENCEBe sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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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.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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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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