D. H. Lawrence Short Quotes

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Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

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To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

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The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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This is beyond me, this fish, His God stands outside my God.

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Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

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What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

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Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

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Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

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It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

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Class makes a gulf, across which all the best human flow is lost

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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

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How beastly the bourgeois is
Especially the male of the species.

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Oh, America,
The sun sets in you.
Are you the grave of our day?

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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.

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It's autumn... and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.

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What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

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The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

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What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

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Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

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Of course Celia shits! Who doesn't? And how much worse if she didn't.

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I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

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It's the man who dares to take, who is independent, not he who gives.

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