DH Lawrence Quotes

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• I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you…
• I would have loved it - without the French
• Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can…
• It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given…
• For what is the beloved? She is that which I myself am not. In the act of love, I am pure male, and she is…
• 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,…
• It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.
• And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood Upon my mind! his lips…
• Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It…
• I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing…
• I used to think a good book was the best company, but now Ive thought better.
• Not every book should be a compass. Some should be a pair of wax wings to soar and escape, if only for a brief time.
• One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's…
• When soul has no value, business has no soul.
• The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you…
• Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying…
• Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.
• Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of…
• The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be…
• If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And…

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