For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery
D. H. LawrenceReason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
D. H. LawrenceThat's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.
D. H. LawrenceWhen 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. LawrenceImitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
D. H. LawrenceI am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.
D. H. Lawrence