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Letter "D" » D.H. Lawrence Quotes
«There is no such thing as sin. There is only life and anti-life.»
«The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Tragedy
| Keywords:
Head down, in the head
«We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.»
«The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
boor, emotional, scholastically
«I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
accord, acquaintances, based on, fingering, harmony, impersonal, in truth, personality, personal relation, Personal relations, purely, qualities, relations, roots, The Roots, tree of life, unanimous, wearies, weariest, weary, wearying
«That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
anaesthetic, attention, bit, deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, filthy, invisibility, magic, trick
«You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
pocket, smothered, smothering, smothers
«Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.»
«I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.»
«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.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Blood and, blood relation, bones, design, dimension, elements, flux, fourth, fourth dimension, invent, recognition, relation, various
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