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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

— D. H. Lawrence

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

— D. H. Lawrence

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

— D. H. Lawrence

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

— D. H. Lawrence

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when…

— D. H. Lawrence

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

— D. H. Lawrence

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making…

— D. H. Lawrence

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where…

— D. H. Lawrence

With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never…

— D. H. Lawrence

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not…

— D. H. Lawrence

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way…

— D. H. Lawrence

You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill…

— D. H. Lawrence

Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order…

— D. H. Lawrence

It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within…

— D. H. Lawrence

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

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which…

— D. H. Lawrence

There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could…

— D. H. Lawrence

The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as…

— D. H. Lawrence

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth…

— D. H. Lawrence