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.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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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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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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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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