Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
D. H. LAWRENCESometimes 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.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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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 would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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The 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.
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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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