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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.

D. H. Lawrence

That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Mad Myself Togetherness Woman
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Heart Broken Love Myself
One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Kind Laugh Oneself War World
Only youth has a taste of immortality.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Forever Mortal Taste Youth
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
D. H. LAWRENCE

Myself Sorry Wild
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Fear Himself Oneself People
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.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Death Greatness Human Ourselves Race Tree
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.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Act Sea Sex
A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
D. H. LAWRENCE

People Wonderful
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
D. H. LAWRENCE

Love Luxury Man Poor Satisfaction Woman
If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Fall Love Moon Myself
Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Born Children Hope
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.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Act Courage Emotion Responsibility Rule Strong
The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Beautiful Freedom Love Woman
But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Animal Beyond Flower Humanity Wings
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.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Game Important Old People

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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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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