I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe 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.
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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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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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 better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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