Tag: D. H. Lawrence
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D. H. Lawrence
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn’t dictate to her.
D. H. Lawrence
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Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. Lawrence
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
D. H. Lawrence
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. Lawrence
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
D. H. Lawrence
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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!
D. H. Lawrence