The Centaur Collection of 50 Literary Masterpieces Quotes

“as it were,”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Centaur Collection of 50 Literary Masterpieces

“Afterwards she said she had been silly, that the boy’s hair would have had to be cut, sooner or later. In the end, she even brought herself to say to her husband it was just as well he had played barber when he did. But she knew, and Morel knew, that that act had caused something momentous to take place in her soul. She remembered the scene all her life, as one in which she had suffered the most intensely.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Centaur Collection of 50 Literary Masterpieces

“don’t be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Centaur Collection of 50 Literary Masterpieces

“There is visible labor and invisible labor. To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Centaur Collection of 50 Literary Masterpieces

“There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God. We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their philosophy. Let us go on.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Centaur Collection of 50 Literary Masterpieces