D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Should Have Quotes, Fading Quotes

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

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For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

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When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

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She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.

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A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

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That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

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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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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

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The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

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I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.

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We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

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Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

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A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

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Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

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the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

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I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

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