D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

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The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

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The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

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A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

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Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

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I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

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There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.

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When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

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Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

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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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But the pressure was too great. He would have to find something to make good the equilibrium. Something must come with him into the hollow void of death in his soul, fill it up, and so equalise the pressure within to the pressure without. For day by day he felt more and more like a bubble...

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Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

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Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

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If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

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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.

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Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

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Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

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Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

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It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

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The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.

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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

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Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

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The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

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Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

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In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

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Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

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