D. H. Lawrence quotes - page 6

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass. (D. H. Lawrence)
Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in. View quote
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet. View quote
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own. View quote
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And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall. View quote
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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless. View quote
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Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether. View quote
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos. View quote
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Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? View quote
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe. View quote
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Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing. (D. H. Lawrence)
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it. View quote
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When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. View quote
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And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first. View quote
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How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. View quote
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You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them. View quote
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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! View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes 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. View quote
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When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be. (D. H. Lawrence)
For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another. View quote
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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. View quote
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble. View quote
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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them. View quote
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