Tag: D. H. Lawrence
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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My God, these folks don’t know how to love – that’s why they love so easily.
D. H. Lawrence
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
D. H. Lawrence
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
D. H. Lawrence
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. Lawrence
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn’t got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
D. H. Lawrence
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I can’t do with mountains at close quarters – they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
D. H. Lawrence
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
D. H. Lawrence
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
D. H. Lawrence