QUOTES by D.H. 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.
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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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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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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.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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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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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.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
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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.
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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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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
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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.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of 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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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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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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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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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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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.
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
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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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