Tag: D. H. Lawrence
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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
D. H. Lawrence
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
D. H. Lawrence
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
D. H. Lawrence
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
D. H. Lawrence
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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 mean much to us.
D. H. Lawrence
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
D. H. Lawrence
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D. H. Lawrence
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. Lawrence
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
D. H. Lawrence
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. Lawrence