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D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
English Writer
Born: Sep 11, 1885
Died: Mar 2, 1930
God Great Life Man Soul You
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. D. H. Lawrence
Selfish World Back Way Void Absolutely California Looks Empty Least Queer False Very Effort Pacific Place Turned Full
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. D. H. Lawrence
Life Intelligence Sex Beauty Out Inseparable Intuition Arises Like Goes Which Consciousness
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. D. H. Lawrence
Somewhere Edge Bound Over Jumps Land
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. Lawrence
Life Better Live Repetition Repetitions Than Die
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. D. H. Lawrence
Needs Soul Beauty More Than Human Bread Human Soul Actual
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
Art Mind Changes Moral Morality Rather Implicit Passionate Blood Than Didactic Essential Which Function
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. D. H. Lawrence
Death Complete Forgetting Human Human Consciousness Really Even Consciousness
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. D. H. Lawrence
War Peace Imminent Propaganda Seem Makes Loud
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily. D. H. Lawrence
Love God Easily Folks Know How To Love Why
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. D. H. Lawrence
On The Contrary Immorality Finer Morality He True True Artist Always Contrary Artist Substitute Substitutes
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. D. H. Lawrence
Truth Day Nature Kiss Slippery Out Give Supple Had Absurdity She Leave Fish Truer Any May Turn Reason Her
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. D. H. Lawrence
Good Animal True Instincts Your
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. D. H. Lawrence
Democracy Water Light Nothing Down Else Everything See More Prices Mere Vulgar Wages Closets Just Dislike Electric Electric Light Level Brings
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. D. H. Lawrence
Positive Love You Yourself Negative Somewhere Must Abnormal Absorb Because Got Up Want Loved Craving Shortage Eternal To Love Your Fill
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
You Change Liberty Master Our Only Sort Another Domination Choose Thing
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. D. H. Lawrence
Man Woman Cruelest Perfection Her Thing Portray
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. D. H. Lawrence
Soul Experience Myth Too Mental Purpose Attempt Blood Going Human Which Explanation Human Experience Deep Whole Description
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
Art You Man Book Walk Admire Bear Crowd Bandit Either Should Rebel Round
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
Great Man Woman Experience Action Living Every Embrace Embraces Adventure New Himself His Every Man
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. D. H. Lawrence
Man Relation Deity Proper Proper Study Study His Mankind
God is only a great imaginative experience. D. H. Lawrence
God Great Experience Only Imaginative
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. D. H. Lawrence
Happiness Life You Business Matter Rest Long Miserable Feel Unhappiness Paltry
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. D. H. Lawrence
Women Men Men And Women Stay Towards Another Gentle Till Hearts Again Apart Should Grow
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. D. H. Lawrence
Soul Human Being He Most Got Curious Human Being Creature Dozens Thinks
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. D. H. Lawrence
Nothing Our Unless Laughs Touch Merely Know Knowing Crammed Which
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. D. H. Lawrence
Evil Secret Worst Makes Passionate Very Refuse Acknowledge Us Rotten Wickedness
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