Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?
D. H. LawrenceHaving achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. LawrenceOne's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
D. H. LawrenceMarriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.
D. H. Lawrence