D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Fate Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

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I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

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For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

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Man is a thought-adventurer.

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Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

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

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Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

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Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

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Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.

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There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

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Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

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When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

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The goal is to know how not-to-know.

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Money is the seal and stamp of success.

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The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible.

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