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D.H. Lawrence

  • Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • People always make war when they say they love peace... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • I would have loved it - without the French... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • I shall always be a priest of love.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • We know that we are living in a state of falsity, that all our social and religious form is dead, a crystallized lie.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • No man is or can be purely individual. The mass of men have only the tiniest touch of individuality: if any. The mass of men live and move, think and feel collectively, and have practically no individual emotions, feelings or thoughts at all. They ar... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.... D.H. Lawrence {view}
  • The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In... D.H. Lawrence {view}