D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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D. H. Lawrence

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 11, 1885

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

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

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

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

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

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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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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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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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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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God doesn't know things. He is things.

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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

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