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" 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. "

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D. H. Lawrence

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Love

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "

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

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

" I shall always be a priest of love. "

" The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. "

" 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. "

" They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. "

" The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. "

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

" Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. "

" One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. "

D. H. Lawrence

Consciousness

Body

" 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. "

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

" God is only a great imaginative experience. "

" Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. "

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

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

D. H. Lawrence

Things

Know

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Soul

Nothing

" 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. "

D. H. Lawrence

Religion

Belief

" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "

" 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. "

D. H. Lawrence

Youth

Thinking