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Letter "D" » D.H. Lawrence Quotes
«Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.»
«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!»
«In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovere»
«You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.»
«Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means»
«The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice»
«I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.»
«Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Buildings, craving, creeds, flexible, imposed, lump, lust after, obstruction, obstructions, weariness
«Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abolish, abolishes, abolishing, accumulation, accumulations, city, Creation, Death itself, destroys, horror, ideal, mere, million, multiply, One In A Million, parasite, rear, rearing, rears, swelled, swell up, swollen, throws
«The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Immortality,
Morality,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
finer, grosser, immoral, immorality, on the contrary, relatively
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