D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
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Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!
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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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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
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It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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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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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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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 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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There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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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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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.