D.H. Lawrence Quotes
76 D.H. Lawrence quotes:
"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."
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"The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it."
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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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"Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither."
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"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."
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"But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions."
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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."
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"The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do."
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"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."
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"Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."
Experience Quotes
Myth Quotes
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"John Thomas says goodnight to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart"
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"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."
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"Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep."
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"The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being."
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"The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth."
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"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
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"Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts."
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"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar."
Ethics Quotes
Calendar Quotes
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"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."
Age And Aging Quotes
Tragedies Quotes
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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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