D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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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.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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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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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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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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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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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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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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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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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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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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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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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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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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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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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.