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D.H. Lawrence Quotes

«One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.»
«I can't do with mountains at close quarters -- they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.»
«I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: disaster
«And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.»
«Take nothing, to say: I have it! For you can possess nothing, not even peace.»
«Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.»
«The ordinary novel would trace the history of the diamond - but I say, `Diamond, what! This is carbon.' And my diamond may be coal or soot and my theme is carbon.»
«No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside.»
«Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.»
«The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack»