Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence
Top 10 Best Quotes
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
“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.”
“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. ”
“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”
“Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.”
“Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?”
“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.”
“What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.”
“She could just distinguish his features, as he slept the perfect sleep. In this darkness, she seemed to see him so distinctly. But he was far off, in another world. Ah, she could shriek with torment, he was so far off, and perfected, in another world. She seemed to look at him as at a pebble far away under clear dark water. And here was she, left with all the anguish of consciousness, whilst he was sunk deep into the other element of mindless, remote, living shadow-gleam. He was beautiful, far-off, and perfected. They would never be together. Ah, this awful, inhuman distance which would always be interposed between her and the other being! There was nothing to do but to lie still and endure. She felt an overwhelming tenderness for him, and a dark, under-stirring of jealous hatred, that he should lie so perfect and immune, in an other-world, whilst she was tormented with violent wakefulness, cast out in the outer darkness.”
“They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.”
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humanity, awkward-situations, being-in-love, wandering, contact, nowhere, love, animals, women-in-love, intimacy, life, ecology, travel, wanderlust
