He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
D. H. LAWRENCEHe knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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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The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
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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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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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She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
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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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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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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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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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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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