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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Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.
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I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
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Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.... I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
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Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! / A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.
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I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree-presences - it is almost like having another being
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