I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCEThere is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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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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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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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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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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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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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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 am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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