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Famous D. H. Lawrence Quotes
“We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.”
“Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.”
“In every living thing there is the desire for love.”
“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
“People always make war when they say they love peace.”
“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
“Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.”
“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”
“If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.”
“Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.”
“Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.”
“Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
“The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.”
“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
“One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.”
“The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.”
“When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”
“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
“Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.”
“Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.”
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”
“The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.”
“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
“Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.”
“God is only a great imaginative experience.”