D. H. Lawrence Quotes, War Quotes, Believe Quotes

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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Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

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Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

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Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

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There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

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Man is a thought-adventurer.

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For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

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You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

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And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

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Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

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You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

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Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

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Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

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If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

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I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

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That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

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Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

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