"In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for……" — DH Lawrence
"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, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovere."
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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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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 cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts…
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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