D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Light Quotes, Silence Quotes

The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

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Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.

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The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

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How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

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Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats!

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Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

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Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

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It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

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It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

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For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

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I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

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If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

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Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

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If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

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When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

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He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

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The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

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