"I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh,……" — DH Lawrence
"I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and White chapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the"
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25 Quotes by DH Lawrence
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I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell…
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I would have loved it - without the French
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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book…
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It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman.…
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For what is the beloved? She is that which I myself am not. In the act of love, I am…
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In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble.…
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It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.
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And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood…
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Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet…
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I used to think a good book was the best company, but now Ive thought better.
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Not every book should be a compass. Some should be a pair of wax wings to soar and escape, if…
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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…
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