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Fantasia of the Unconscious QUOTES

Fantasia of the Unconscious QUOTES

1 " On revient toujours a son premier amour." It sounds like a cynicism to-day. As if we really meant: "On ne revient jamais a son premier amour." But as a matter of fact, a man never leaves his first love, once the love is established. He may leave his first attempt at love. Once a man establishes a full dynamic communication at the deeper and higher centers, with a woman, this can never be broken. But sex in the head breaks down, and half circuits break down. Once the full circuit is established, however, this can never break. "

― D.H. Lawrence , Fantasia of the Unconscious

2 " If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.. "

― D.H. Lawrence , Fantasia of the Unconscious

3 " I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read all that is printed. I count it a misfortune that serious books are exposed in the public market, like slaves exposed naked for sale. But there we are, since we live in an age of mistaken democracy, we must go through with it. "

― D.H. Lawrence , Fantasia of the Unconscious

4 " A nice row there'd be in heaven if Aldebaran caught Sirius by the tail and said, "Look here, you're not to look so green, you damm dog-star! It's an offense against star-regulations. "

― D.H. Lawrence , Fantasia of the Unconscious

5 " my body is my bicycle: the whole middle of me is the saddle where sits the rider of my soul. And my front wheel is the cardiac plane, and my back wheel is the solar plexus. And the brakes are the voluntary ganglia. And the steering gear is my head. And the right and left pedals are the right and left dynamics of the body, in some way corresponding to the sympathetic and voluntary division. "

― D.H. Lawrence , Fantasia of the Unconscious

6 " Our leaders have not loved men: they have loved ideas, and have been willing to sacrifice passionate men on the altars of the blood-drinking, ever-ash-thirsty ideal. Has President Wilson, or Karl Marx, or Bernard Shaw ever felt one hot blood-pulse of love for the working man, the half-conscious, deluded working man? Never. Each of these leaders has wanted to abstract him away from his own blood and being, into some foul Methuselah or abstraction of a man. "

― D.H. Lawrence , Fantasia of the Unconscious

7 " For each time we lie down to sleep we have within us a body of death which dies with the day that is spent. "

― D.H. Lawrence , Fantasia of the Unconscious

8 " The universe isn't a spinning wheel. It is a cloud of bees flying and veering round. Thank goodness for that, for we were getting drunk on the spinning wheel. "

― D.H. Lawrence , Fantasia of the Unconscious

9 " Now I look with wonder, with tenderness, with joyful yearning towards that which is outside me, beyond me, not me. Behold, that which was once negative has now become the only positive. The other being is now the great positive reality, I myself am as nothing. Positivity has changed places. "

― D.H. Lawrence , Fantasia of the Unconscious