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.
D. H. LAWRENCEThe dead don’t die. They look on and help.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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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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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of 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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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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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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