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Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one’s own integrity (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
Why were we crucified into sex? Why were we not left rounded off, and finished in ourselves, as we began, as he certainly began, so perfectly alone? (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
Have you built your ship of death, o have you? O build your ship of death, for you will need it (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
If only we could have two lives: The first in which to make one’s mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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 (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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 (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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 (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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 (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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 (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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 (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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 it's duration (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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 (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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! (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it. And the journey is always towards the other soul (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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 (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness (David Herbert Lawrence Quotes)
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