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From Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
- Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
- The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and…
- The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest…
- I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and…
- She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized…
- Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity,…
- Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth…
- My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest,…
- We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after…
- Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the…
- From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and ... the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.
- Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker…
- Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our…
- The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask…
- We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we…
- Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
- Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within…
- Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.
- In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up,…
- I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for…
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