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.
D. H. LAWRENCEAll 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.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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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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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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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