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“All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

“Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.”

D.H. Lawrence

“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.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

“If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.”

D.H. Lawrence book The Rainbow

Source: The Rainbow

“When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.”

D.H. Lawrence

Source: Apocalypse

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

D.H. Lawrence book Studies in Classic American Literature

Studies in Classic American Literature (1923)

“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.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

“Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

“Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”

D.H. Lawrence book Studies in Classic American Literature

Source: Studies in Classic American Literature

“Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love