D. H. Lawrence quotes - page 5

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. (D. H. Lawrence)
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. View quote
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. View quote
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her. View quote
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. View quote
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse. View quote
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Only in a novel are all things given full play. View quote
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. View quote
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. View quote
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She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her. View quote
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. (D. H. Lawrence)
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. View quote
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. View quote
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes. View quote
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. View quote
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. View quote
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Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox! View quote
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte. View quote
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them. View quote
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind. View quote
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. (D. H. Lawrence)
I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort. View quote
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. View quote
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There's lots of good fish in the sea... maybe... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea. View quote
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack. View quote
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