D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

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That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

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It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

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Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

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When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

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All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

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[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

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It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

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But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

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Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

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Where sanity is there God is.

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

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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

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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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Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.

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Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

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Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

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