D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Sunset Quotes, Fire Quotes

We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

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Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

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I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

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One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

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Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.

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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

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People always make war when they say they love peace.

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Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

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A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water.

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

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I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

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Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

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My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

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Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

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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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In my very own self, I am part of my family.

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