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“You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.”

D.H. Lawrence

“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.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

“When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.”

D.H. Lawrence

“And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

“My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”

D.H. Lawrence

Letter to Blanche Jennings (8 May 1909), The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. James T. Boulton, Vol. 1 (1979), pp. 127

“She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

“It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

“If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated toinstead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily…”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“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--”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

“You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“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.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.”

D.H. Lawrence