D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 20

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• The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Egypt, Pyramids, Lasts

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• So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

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  Long, Matter, Miserable

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.743, Delphi Classics

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• In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

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  Race, Dust, Civilization

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• It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fighting, Men, Flames

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• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

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  Knowing, Laughing, Atheism

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

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  Love, Life, Beautiful

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

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  Men, Lovely, Magic

  D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen (1981). “The Lost Girl”, p.299, Cambridge University Press

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• A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

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  Men, Nimble, Wit

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8848, Delphi Classics

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• A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Snakes, Water, Hot

  'Snake' (1923)

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• How beastly the bourgeois is
  especially the male of the species

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Class, Males

  "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is" l. 1 (1929)

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• It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.

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  Father, Son, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4816, Delphi Classics

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• The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Perfect, Rainbow, Novelists

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

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• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

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  Humor, Men, Creating

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3839, Delphi Classics

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• We are so conceited and so unproud.

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  Humility, Pride, Conceited

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

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• Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Rubbish, Months

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.105, Cambridge University Press

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• Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

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  Falling In Love, Done, Ifs

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

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  Love, Folks, Know How

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

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  Fun, Thinking, Bullets

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.219, Cambridge University Press

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• Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

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  Two, Would Be, Different

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.243, Cambridge University Press

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• Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Literature, Bones

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.417, Cambridge University Press

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• But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

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  Peace, Mean, Giving

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.170, Cambridge University Press

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• In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

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  Friends, Sympathy, Country

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Coffee, Black, Jackets

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-dust-coloured artichokes . . . long strings of dried figs, mountains of big oranges, scarlet large peppers, a large slice of pumpkin, a great mass of colours and vegetable freshness. . . .

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  Dark, Vegetables, Sea

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

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• O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make
  the journey, still they moan and beat
  against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Wall, Journey

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