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“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
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“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
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“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
― The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
― The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
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“It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.”
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“She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.”
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
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“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
― Women in Love
― Women in Love
“Nobody knows you.
You don't know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?”
― The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
You don't know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?”
― The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.”
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“Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.”
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“We fucked a flame into being.”
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“Life is ours to be spent, not to
be saved.”
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be saved.”
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“But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
“This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.”
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“I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."
(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913)”
― Letters
(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913)”
― Letters
“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.”
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.”
― Women in Love
― Women in Love
“I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.”
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“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. ”
― Women in Love
― Women in Love
“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
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“no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death”
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“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”
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“Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.”
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“When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don't know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like
burnt paper.”
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and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don't know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like
burnt paper.”
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