“ Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too p… D.H. Lawrence
“ You are the call and I am the answer,You are the wish, and I the fulfilment,You are the night, and I the day. What else? It is perfect enough. It is perfectly complete. You and I, What more—? Strange,… D.H. Lawrence
“ For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack. D.H. Lawrence
“ 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
“ What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality. D.H. Lawrence
“ I WANT her though, to take the same from me.She touches me as if I were herself, her own.She has not realized yet, that fearful thing, thatI am the other,she thinks we are all of one piece.It is painf… D.H. Lawrence
“ When along the pavement,Palpitating flames of life,People flicker around me,I forget my bereavement,The gap in the great constellation,The place where a star used to be D.H. Lawrence
“ Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. Ibelieve especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with awarm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the w… D.H. Lawrence
“ For God’s sake, let us be mennot monkeys minding machinesor sitting with our tails curledwhile the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone.Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces. D.H. Lawrence
“ I WANT her though, to take the same from me.She touches me as if I were herself, her own.She has not realized yet, that fearful thing, thatI am the other,she thinks we are all of one piece.It is painf… D.H. Lawrence
“ But you don't fuck me cold-heartedly,' she protested.'I don't want to fuck you at all.'Lady Chatterly's Lover D.H. Lawrence
“ You have a place in my nature which no one else could fill. You have played a fundamental part in my development. And this grief, which has been like a clod between our two souls, does it not begin to… D.H. Lawrence
“ To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life. D.H. Lawrence
“ Have I interrupted a conversation?' she asked. 'No, only a complete silence,' said Birkin. 'Oh,' said Ursula, vaguely, absent. D.H. Lawrence
“ Can you never like things without clutching them as if you wanted to pull the heart out of them? D.H. Lawrence
“ Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some… D.H. Lawrence
“ There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet. D.H. Lawrence
“ 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
