Quotes from Sons and Lovers — D. H. Lawrence
1885–1930 England
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"I suppose that's what we do in death⎯⎯⎯sleep in wonder."
Sons and Lovers (1913)
"Each forgot everything save the hatred of the other."
Sons and Lovers (1913)
"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."
Sons and Lovers (1913)
"I don't think I love you as a man ought to love his wife"
Sons and Lovers (1913)
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.
Sons and Lovers (1913)