What is the knocking?
What is the knocking at the door in the night?
It is somebody who wants to do us harm.
No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.
Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
D.H. LawrenceOne could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
D.H. LawrenceMen are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
D.H. LawrenceTags: purpose freedom religion community individual escape obedience west
Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.
D.H. LawrenceA little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
D.H. LawrenceTags: air morphine refreshing
We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
D.H. LawrenceSo as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.
D.H. LawrenceWhat the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
D.H. LawrenceThe army leaves me time to think, and saves me from the battle of life.
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