That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
D. H. LAWRENCEIf a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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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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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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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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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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