D.H. Lawrence
"One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on."
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"One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on."
D.H. Lawrence
"A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him."
D.H. Lawrence
"It was like something lurking in the darkness within him... There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent."
D.H. Lawrence
"I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self,and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can helpand patience, and a certain difficult repentancelong difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneselffrom the endless repetition of the mistakewhich mankind at large has chosen to sanctify."
D.H. Lawrence
"The mighty question arises upon us, what is one's own real self? It certainly is not what we think we are and ought to be."
D.H. Lawrence
"“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”"
D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
"The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He could not tell one day from another, hardly one place from another. Nothing was distinct or distinguishable. Often he lost himself for an hour at a time, could not remember what he had done."
D.H. Lawrence
"When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language."
D.H. Lawrence
"Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, a machine, an instrument, a bosom, a womb, a pair of legs, a servant, an encyclopaedia, an ideal or an obscenity; the one thing he won’t accept her as, is a human being, a real human being of the feminine sex."
D.H. Lawrence
"To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life."
D.H. Lawrence
"Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. Ibelieve especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with awarm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the womentake it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right. It's all thiscold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy."
D.H. Lawrence
"When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love)"
D.H. Lawrence
"The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines."
D.H. Lawrence
"The young man, perched insecurely in the slender branches, rocked till he felt slightly drunk, reached down the boughs, where the scarlet beady cherries hung thick underneath, and tore off handful after handful of the sleek, cool-fleshed fruit. Cherries touched his ears and his neck as he stretched forward, their chill fingertips sending a flash down his blood. All shades of red, from a golden vermilion to a rich crimson, glowed and met his eyes under a darkness of leaves."
D.H. Lawrence
"When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,and when we escape like squirrels turning in thecages of our personalityand get into the forests again,we shall shiver with cold and frightbut things will happen to usso that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in,and passion will make our bodies taut with power,we shall stamp our feet with new powerand old things will fall down,we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up likeburnt paper."
D.H. Lawrence
"Of course , if I am nothing but an ego, and woman is nothing but another ego, then there is really no vital difference between us. Two little dolls of conscious entities, squeaking when you squeeze them. And with a tiny bit of an extraneous appendage to mark which is which..."
D.H. Lawrence
"Aren't I enough for you' she asked.'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.'(Women in Love)"
D.H. Lawrence
"One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them."
D.H. Lawrence
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