D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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D. H. Lawrence

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 11, 1885

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

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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.

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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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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

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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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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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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

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

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

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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

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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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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

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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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Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

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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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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.

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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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