All David Herbert Lawrence Quotes
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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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 business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
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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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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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