D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Profound Quotes, Desire Quotes

There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation.

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After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.

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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

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You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

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Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

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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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I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

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It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

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

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Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

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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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We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

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Love's a dog in a manger.

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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

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In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

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Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

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We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

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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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Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

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