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Other Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
- Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
- We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after…
- And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted…
- I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty…
- To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and…
- 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…
- One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other…
- This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than…
- But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do…
- Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
- And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the…
- Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror,…
- The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way,…
- Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the…
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
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- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
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