D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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D. H. Lawrence

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 11, 1885

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

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

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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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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

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

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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

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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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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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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

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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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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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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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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.

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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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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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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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