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All Quotes by author - D. H. Lawrence

" All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. "

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

" A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. "

" Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. "

" Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. "

" But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. "

" California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. "

" 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. "

" Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. "

" Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. "

" Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. "

" Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. "

" Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. "

" Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. "

" Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. "

" For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. "

" God doesn't know things. He is things. "

" God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. "

" God is only a great imaginative experience. "

" Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. "

" How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. "

" 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. "

" I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. "

" I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams. "

" I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. "

" I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. "

" I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. "

" If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. "

" I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. "

" I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. "

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