D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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• She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the…
• And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower…
• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that…
• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
• Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
• Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time,…
• But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with…
• Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or…
• 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…
• They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
• That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
• Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
• Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make…
• The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and…
• I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.
• Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.
• The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird…
• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
• 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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