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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Learn Love Deal Journey

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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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Alive Beast Bird Flower

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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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Complete Final Gathered Modification

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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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Genuine Got Hot Moves

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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

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Better Die Life Live

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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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Art Blood Bones Creative

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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

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Allow Came Freedoms Hard

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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

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Calendar Change Equity Ethics

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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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Certain Conceited Countries God

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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Beautiful Expression Finds Right

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I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

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Done Fall Find God

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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

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Believe Converted First Hears

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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

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Admire Bandit Bear Book

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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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Always Anything Close Mountains

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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

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Care Cure Follies Mean

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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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Actor Audience Author Business

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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

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Feel Good Sneeze Spiteful

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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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Bird Dead Drop Frozen

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Always Love Priest Shall

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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

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Glad Invincible Steps Strangled

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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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Dry Rule Stick Streak

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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

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Bitter Body Difficult Live

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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

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Bad Being Funeral Perpetual

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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

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Life Ours Saved Spent

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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

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Bites Curse Deep Literature

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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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Blossoms Brief Duration Enjoyed

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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

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Animal Fear Men World

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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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Collective Madness Money Vast

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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

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Easily Folks God Love

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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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Belief Flesh Wiser Blood

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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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Attempt Blood Deep Description

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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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Artist Created Critic Function

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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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Art Aside Bones Glorious

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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

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Everything Girl Innocent Maiden

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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

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Disease Ghastly Hideous Live

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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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Better Brutality Laugh Mix

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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Books Emotions Master Presents

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

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Full Given Novel Play

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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Age Essentially Ours Refuse

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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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Absurdity Truth Day Fish

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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

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Arises Beauty Consciousness Inseparable

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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

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Almost Art Passion Obscenity

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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

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Art Between Business Environment

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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

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Cruelest Man Perfection Portray

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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

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Earth Fairest Flower Manure

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"45 D. H. Lawrence Quotes & Sayings

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.

D. H. Lawrence

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

D. H. Lawrence

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

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I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

D. H. Lawrence

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

D. H. Lawrence

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

D. H. Lawrence

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

D. H. Lawrence

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

D. H. Lawrence

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

D. H. Lawrence

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

D. H. Lawrence

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D. H. Lawrence

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!

D. H. Lawrence

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

D. H. Lawrence

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

D. H. Lawrence

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

D. H. Lawrence

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence