D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 19

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• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

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  Philosophy, Blessed, Mean

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• The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

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  Wonder, Sixth Sense, Sense Of Wonder

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• Only youth has a taste of immortality.

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  Taste, Youth, Immortality

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1881, Simon and Schuster

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• Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." "And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunken delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.

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  Strong, Sex, Rocks

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• You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.

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  Love

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

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  Atheism, Modern, Photograph

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4191, Delphi Classics

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• To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.

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  Years, Discovery, Self

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

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  Liberty, Individual, Esteem

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• And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

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  Nice, Rain, Love You

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8237, Delphi Classics

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• Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

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  Party, People, House

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• Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

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  Friendship, Marriage, Passion

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9049, Delphi Classics

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• For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

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  Moments, Standards, Young

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3700, Delphi Classics

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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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  Husband, Wife, Unhappiness

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.187, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

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  Home, Sleep, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9406, Delphi Classics

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• If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

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  Cutting, Smell, Psychology

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

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  Men, Self, Suffering

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• The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

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  Strong, Responsibility, Wish

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

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  Women, Fame, Donkey

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.570, Book House

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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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  Lying, Tree, Humanity

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1009, Book House

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• That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

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  Men, Sensitive, Know Me

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.205, D. H. Lawrence

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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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  Travel, Moving, Tourism

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
  Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
  A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
  And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she
  sings.

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  Music, Mother, Children

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

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• Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single beingwhich accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.

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  Love, Freedom, Yield

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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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  Fall, Winter, Hands

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• The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

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  Past, Sea, Age

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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