David Herbert Lawrence
Quotations
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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.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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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.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“You don’t want to love – your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren’t positive, you’re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you’ve got a shortage somewhere.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“You don’t want to love – your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren’t positive, you’re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you’ve got a shortage somewhere.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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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.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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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.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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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.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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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.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. – David Herbert Lawrence
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