“Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: truth
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers.
“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Men are freest when they are most
“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers.
“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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The war is dreadful. It is the
“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: home
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There is only one thing that a
“There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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My great religion is a belief in
“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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The great living experience for every man
“The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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I am in love – and, my
“I am in love – and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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The essential function of art is moral.
“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
Author: David Herbert Lawrence
Category: art
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