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Us Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
- She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the…
- 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…
- Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time,…
- The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest…
- Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works…
- I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and…
- The map appears to us more real than the land.
- To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Â Strange and wonderful chords awake…
- We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain…
- They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as…
- Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense…
- My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It…
- From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and ... the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.
- There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
- Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.
- It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
- Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within…
- For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery
- If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains…
- 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…
- It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep…
- This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
- Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us…
- When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and…
- Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us:…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
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