D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrencewas 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 September 1885
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The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
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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.
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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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How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.
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Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
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If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night
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To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.
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The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
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The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
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Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
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One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.