D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

D. H. Lawrence
It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

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The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

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To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

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Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.

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When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

D. H. Lawrence
I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

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Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

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Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.

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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

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Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

D. H. Lawrence
There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.

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