David Herbert Lawrence citáty

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„Přátelství mezi mužem a ženo nemůže existovat jako prvotní cit.“

„Pozbude-li muž vnitřního smyslu tvůrčí činnosti, cítí se zrazen a je skutečně zrazen. Učiní-li ženu, nebo ženu a dítě, středem svého života, je jeho postavení beznadějné.“

„Svět se ničeho tak nebojí jako nové zkušenosti, protože ta nahradí tolik starých zkušeností.“

„Manželství je klíčem k lidskému životu.“

„Ideální by bylo mít dva životy. První proto, abychom mohli dělat všechny chyby, a druhý proto, abychom si jej mohli užít.“

„Jak začít se vzděláním dítěte?
První pravidlo - nechte ho být. Druhé pravidlo - nechte ho být. Třetí pravidlo - nechte ho být. To pro začátek stačí.“

„Země, kde muži opovrhují sexem a žijí pro něj.“

„Nikdo tě nezná.
Neznáš sám sebe.
A já, který jsem se do tebe napůl zamiloval,
Co miluji?
Svou vlastní představu?“

„Osobně mám raději, když mám zlomené srdce. Je to tak krásné, kaleidoskopické svítání v prasklině.“

“You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.”

“Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.”

“They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.”

“Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve
got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up
the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money
gives out.”

“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.”

“But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.”

“you roll me out flat”

“If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I’d go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’.”

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”

“Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.”

“Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.”

“God is only a great imaginative experience.”

“To be rid of our individuality, which is our will, which is our effort⎯⎯⎯to live effortless, a kind of curious sleep⎯⎯⎯that is very beautiful, I think; that is our after-life⎯⎯⎯our immortality.”

“The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.”

“Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.”

“To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.”

“Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.”

“It was in 1915 the old world ended.”

“Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.”

“He talked to her endlessly about his love of horizontals: how they, the great levels of sky and land in Lincolnshire, meant to him the eternality of the will, just as the bowed Norman arches of the church, repeating themselves, meant the dogged leaping forward of the persistent human soul, on and on, nobody knows where; in contradiction to the perpendicular lines and to the Gothic arch, which, he said, leapt up at heaven and touched the ecstasy and lost itself in the divine.”

“I suppose that's what we do in death⎯⎯⎯sleep in wonder.”

“The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.”

“It's the man who dares to take, who is independent, not he who gives.”

“I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.”

“The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.”

“California is a queer place — in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.”

“Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!”

“Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”

“The tiny fish enjoy themselves
in the sea.
Quick little splinters of life,
their little lives are fun to them
in the sea.”