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“Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.”

A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1929)

“Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love (1920), Ch. 17

“God is only a great imaginative experience.”

Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, pt. 4, ed. by E. McDonald, (1936)

“To be rid of our individuality, which is our will, which is our effort⎯⎯⎯to live effortless, a kind of curious sleep⎯⎯⎯that is very beautiful, I think; that is our after-life⎯⎯⎯our immortality.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers (1913), Ch.11

“The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

“Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.”

Pornography and Obscenity (1929)

“To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.”

Sketches of Etruscan Places (1932)

“Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.”

Letter to A W McLeod (6 October 1912)

“It was in 1915 the old world ended.”

D.H. Lawrence book Kangaroo

Kangaroo (1923) "The Nightmare"

“Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

“He talked to her endlessly about his love of horizontals: how they, the great levels of sky and land in Lincolnshire, meant to him the eternality of the will, just as the bowed Norman arches of the church, repeating themselves, meant the dogged leaping forward of the persistent human soul, on and on, nobody knows where; in contradiction to the perpendicular lines and to the Gothic arch, which, he said, leapt up at heaven and touched the ecstasy and lost itself in the divine.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Sons and Lovers (1913)

“I suppose that's what we do in death⎯⎯⎯sleep in wonder.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers (1913), Ch.11

“The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.”

Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (1921)

“It's the man who dares to take, who is independent, not he who gives.”

Letter to John Middleton Murry, 27 November 1913 http://books.google.com/books?id=NyudR_ePn8sC&q=%22It%27s+the+man+who+dares+to+take+who+is+independent+not+he+who+gives%22&pg=PA112#v=onepage

“I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.”

Letter to Blanche Jennings (15 April 1908), Letters of D.H. Lawrence (1979), edited by James T. Boulton

“The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.”

John Galsworthy (1927)

“California is a queer place — in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.”

Letter (September 24, 1923); published in The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts (1987), vol. 4.

“Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!”

Song of a Man who has Come Through (1917)

“Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”

Pornography and Obscenity (1929)

“The tiny fish enjoy themselves
in the sea.
Quick little splinters of life,
their little lives are fun to them
in the sea.”

Little Fish (1929)