And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
D. H. LAWRENCEHow 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.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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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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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
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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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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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