All David Herbert Lawrence Quotes
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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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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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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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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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
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Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
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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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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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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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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
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