D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Literature
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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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!
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.
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The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
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For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.
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God is only a great imaginative experience.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
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