All David Herbert Lawrence Quotes
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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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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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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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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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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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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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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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 world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
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