D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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• There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

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  Inspirational, Unseen, Consciousness

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• Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

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  World, Fit, Chopping

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1494, Delphi Classics

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• We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

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  Love, Inspirational, Sky

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3688, Delphi Classics

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• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

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  Children, Freedom, Fighting

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.359, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

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  Life, Positive, Literature

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• Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

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  Love, Life, Best Friend

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• Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

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  Poison, Havens

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.300, Cambridge University Press

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• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sorry, Saws, Self Pity

  Pansies (1929) "Self-Pity"

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• The great home of the soul is the open road.

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  Courage, Home, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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

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  Birthday, Knowledge, Age

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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• Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

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  Love, Life, Breakup

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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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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  Life, Real, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10167, Delphi Classics

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• Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

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  Animal, Men, World

  Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) "Mountain Lion"

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• In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.

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  Sex, Loss, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.177, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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

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  Freedom, Lying, Mean

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

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  Writing, Sneezing, Spiteful

  Letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith,?25 Nov. 1913, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 1, p. 246

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• A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

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  Love You, Sleep, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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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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  Ifs

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.125, 谷月社

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• The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

  "The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence".

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• If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

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  Mistake, Life Lesson, Two

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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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  Done, Way, Likes

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.276, Cambridge University Press

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• It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Funeral

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.312, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

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  Love, Elements, Wonder Of Life

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

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  Soul, Essentials, Killers

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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