David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct.
D.H.Lawrence Quotes:
1. I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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2. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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3. Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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4. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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5. 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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6. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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7. 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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8. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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9. 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.
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10. 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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