D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Self Quotes, Poetry Quotes

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

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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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Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

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I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

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Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

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The dead don't die. They look on and help.

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If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

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How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

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I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

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Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

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Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

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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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It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

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That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.

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What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

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I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict.

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