I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCEI can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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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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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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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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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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