D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Sex Quotes, Emotional Quotes

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

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Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

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The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

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Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

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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!

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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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Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

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One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

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When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

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A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

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

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Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

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Money is the seal and stamp of success.

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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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My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

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You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

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