D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Religious Quotes, Believe Quotes

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

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The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

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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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Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me?

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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 only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

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It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

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We are so conceited and so unproud.

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Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

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Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

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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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Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

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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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Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

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For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

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Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

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The dead don't die. They look on and help.

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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

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I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

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