D. H. Lawrence quotes - page 9

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. (D. H. Lawrence)
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.
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I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.
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Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.
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How the horse dominated the mind of the early races, especially of the Mediterranean You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.... The horse, the horse The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
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The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.
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A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.
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Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity. (D. H. Lawrence)
The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences.... The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.
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If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.
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The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.
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Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.
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The great necessity is that we should act according to our thoughts, and think according to our acts. But while we are in thought we cannot really act, and while we are in action we cannot really think. The two conditions, of thought and action, are mutually exclusive. Yet they should be related in harmony.
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The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. (D. H. Lawrence)
Augustine said that God created the universe new every day: and to the living, emotional soul, this is true.
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Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the new repulsion, always different, always new.
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We are today, as human beings, evolved and cultured far beyond the taboos which are inherent in our culture. This is a very important fact to realise.
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That's the place to get to-nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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