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…
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David Herbert Lawrence
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About David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) – were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of romance, sexualit…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by David Herbert LawrenceMen and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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 i…
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modifica…
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 sh…
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way wit…
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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 sh…
In every living thing there is the desire for love.