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American character1 quote
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. — D.H. Lawrence · 1923Americans1 quote
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. — D.H. Lawrence · 1923Autumn1 quote
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit
and the long journey towards oblivion. — D.H. Lawrence · 1930Criticism of America1 quote
There are only two great diseases in the world to-day—Bolshevism and Americanism; and Americanism is the worse of the two, because Bolshevism only smashes your house or your business or your skull, but Americanism smashes your soul. — D.H. Lawrence · 1926Death1 quote
We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying. — D.H. Lawrence · 1932Flowers1 quote
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. — D.H. Lawrence · 1929Grass1 quote
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 · 1920Inevitability of death1 quote
We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying. — D.H. Lawrence · 1932Instincts1 quote
Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct. — D.H. Lawrence · 1911Man and animals1 quote
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself. — D.H. Lawrence · 1929Nature1 quote
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 · 1920Rabbits1 quote
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 · 1920Self-pity1 quote
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself. — D.H. Lawrence · 1929Sin1 quote
Sin is a queer thing. It isn't the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one's own integrity. — D.H. Lawrence · 1923