All David Herbert Lawrence Quotes
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
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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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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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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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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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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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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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