D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Sex Quotes, Fall Quotes

Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.

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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.

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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

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Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

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Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

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But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

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That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business.

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I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

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America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

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He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

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It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

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The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

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What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

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You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.

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