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45 D. H. Lawrence Quotes & Sayings
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45 D. H. Lawrence Quotes & Sayings
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Born: September 11, 1885. Died: March 2, 1930 |
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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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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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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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Books
Emotions
Master
Presents
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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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