D. H. Lawrence quotes - page 4

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. (D. H. Lawrence)
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him. View quote
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. View quote
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. View quote
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. View quote
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. View quote
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. View quote
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. View quote
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. View quote
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. View quote
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone. (D. H. Lawrence)
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night. View quote
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. View quote
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad. View quote
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. View quote
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. View quote
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. View quote
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. View quote
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction. View quote
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. View quote
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I shall always be a priest of love. (D. H. Lawrence)
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. View quote
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Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams. View quote
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. View quote
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And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition. View quote
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