Quotes by D.H. Lawrence
Also in Cosmic Religion
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I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
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It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.
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I am a man, and alive... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog.
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We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
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Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.
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If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.
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Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
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No creature is fully itself 'till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
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One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
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The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
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The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.
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