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. 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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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
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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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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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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.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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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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