D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks."
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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
"There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master."
D. H. Lawrence
"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar."
D. H. Lawrence
"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was."
D. H. Lawrence
"Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them."
D. H. Lawrence
"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."
D. H. Lawrence
"They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates."
D. H. Lawrence
"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
"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."
D. H. Lawrence
"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
"The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."
D. H. Lawrence
"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."
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."
D. H. Lawrence
"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."
D. H. Lawrence
"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
"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."
D. H. Lawrence
"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."
D. H. Lawrence
"The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action."
D. H. Lawrence
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken."
D. H. Lawrence
"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 Alexander, to do."
D. H. Lawrence
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