D. H. Lawrence quotes - page 3

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake. (D. H. Lawrence)
And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all. View quote
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She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him. View quote
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It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said. View quote
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The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have. View quote
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The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice. View quote
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What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about. View quote
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For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done. View quote
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You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. And they say that love is the greatest thing; they persist in SAYING this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do! Look at all the millions of people who repeat every minute that love is the greatest, and charity is the greatest- and see what they are doing all the time. By their works ye shall know them, for dirty liars and cowards, who daren't stand by their own actions, much less by their own words. (D. H. Lawrence)
I can't stand Willy wet-leg, can't stand him at any price. He's resigned, and when you hit him he lets you hit him twice. View quote
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master. View quote
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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. View quote
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. View quote
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board. View quote
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I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. View quote
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. View quote
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down. View quote
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God doesn't know things. He is things. View quote
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. (D. H. Lawrence)
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. View quote
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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. View quote
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. View quote
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. View quote
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