D. H. Lawrence quotes - page 8

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. (D. H. Lawrence)
In every living thing there is the desire for love. View quote
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. View quote
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. View quote
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Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. View quote
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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. View quote
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. View quote
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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. View quote
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. View quote
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. View quote
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. (D. H. Lawrence)
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. View quote
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more. View quote
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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! View quote
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. View quote
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. (D. H. Lawrence)
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. View quote
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. View quote
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. View quote
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. View quote
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