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" It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. "

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D. H. Lawrence

Beauty

Life

" 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. "

" Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. "

" The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. "

" People always make war when they say they love peace. "

" The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. "

" It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. "

" 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. "

" The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. "

D. H. Lawrence

Morality

Artist

" The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. "

" 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. "

" My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. "

" Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. "

" One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. "

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

" 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. "

" Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. "

" Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. "

" The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. "

" Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. "

" Men! The only animal in the world to fear. "

" Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. "

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

" This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. "

D. H. Lawrence

Secret

Evil

" Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! "

D. H. Lawrence

Out

How

" The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. "

D. H. Lawrence

Soul

Nothing