D.H. Lawrence
Writer
1885-09-11
Books by D.H. Lawrence
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Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
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Quotes by D.H. Lawrence
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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