D. H. Lawrence - Truth Quotes

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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

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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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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

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Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

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Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. And they say that love is the greatest thing; they persist in SAYING this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do! Look at all the millions of people who repeat every minute that love is the greatest, and charity is the greatest— and see what they are doing all the time. By their works ye shall know them, for dirty liars and cowards, who daren't stand by their own actions, much less by their own words.'

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Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the letter of truth. The love I feel for my friend, this year, is different from the love I felt last year. If it were not so, it would be a lie. Yet we reiterate love! love! love! as if it were a coin with fixed value instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.

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If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me..

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You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.

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I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

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Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

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