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David Herbert Lawrence

Birthday: September 11, 1885
Deathday: March 02, 1930
Category: English Writer
Type: Writer
National: English

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A man has no religion who has not slowly and...

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed...

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for...

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts....

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine...

But better die than live mechanically a life that is...

California is a queer place in a way, it has...

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting...

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for...

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great...

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between...

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the...

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too...

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not...

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster....

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the...

God doesn't know things. He is things....

God how I hate new countries: They are older than...

God is only a great imaginative experience....

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his...

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression....

I am in love - and, my God, it is...

I believe that a man is converted when first he...

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result...

I can't bear art that you can walk round and...

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they...

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's...

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should...

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most...

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is...

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A...

I shall always be a priest of love....

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible...

I want to live my life so that my nights...

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot...

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion...

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the...

It is so much more difficult to live with one's...

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like...

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then...

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved....

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that...

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent....

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and...

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last...

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow...

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom....

Men! The only animal in the world to fear....

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness....

My God, these folks don't know how to love -...

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the...

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness...

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience,...

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function...

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad,...

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon...

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly...

One can no longer live with people: it is too...

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't...

One must learn to love, and go through a good...

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents...

Only in a novel are all things given full play....

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much,...

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to...

People always make war when they say they love peace....

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt...

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away...

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish...

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you...

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And...

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it...

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a...

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his...

The business of art is to reveal the relation between...

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the...

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman...

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in...

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate,...

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its...

The great living experience for every man is his adventure...

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read...

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks...

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete...

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread....

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved...

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past...

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike...

The novel is the highest form of human expression so...

The one woman who never gives herself is your free...

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle...

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of...

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation...

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much...

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own...

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the...

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the...

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad...

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change...

There is only one thing that a man really wants...

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate,...

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have...

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to...

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the...

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all...

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free...

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to...

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal...