For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D. H. LawrenceOnly at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.
D. H. LawrenceYou can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
D. H. LawrenceLet there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
D. H. LawrenceFor Godโs sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
D. H. LawrenceThe Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.
D. H. Lawrence