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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.


D. H. Lawrence

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D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in the people. One class is no better than an...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE God is only a great imaginative experience.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But i...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me, That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, an...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself;
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an abs...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment comp...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn De...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeolo...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE You were a lord if you had a horse...
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. . . ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intui...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life,...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty line...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and made their own bread, ah, it is amazing ho...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of s...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morn...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Sleep is still most perfect when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominio...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE