D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Land Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

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The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself, and broke at last into light and dark came into existence as light, came into existence as cold shadow then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.

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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

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Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.

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

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The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

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Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

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I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.

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Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

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I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

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What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

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I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

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The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.

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