All David Herbert Lawrence Quotes
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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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
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