If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because itis dual, because… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
