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D H Lawrence Inspirational Quotes (380)

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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.
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You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.
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For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
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When I went to the scientific doctor I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me and reduce me to the level of a thing. So I said: Good-morning! and left him.
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.
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How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!
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The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
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That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.
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There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.
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Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me?
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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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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.
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In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
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A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.
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