D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Hopeless Quotes

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

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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 orange and scrub the floor.

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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

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It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

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[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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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.

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Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

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Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

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It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

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We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.

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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

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And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

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The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

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Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

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