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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[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
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After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be. Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it -- if he wants a safe seat in the audience -- let him read someone else.
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Is it the secret of the long-nosed Etruscans?/ The long-nosed, sensitive footed, subtly-smiling Etruscans, / Who made so little noise outside the cypress groves?
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
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Every race which has become self-conscious and idea-bound in the past has perished.
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Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.
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I think more of a bird with broad wings flying and lapsing through the air, than anything, when I think of metre.
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John Thomas says goodnight to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart
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Man's ultimate love for man? Yes, yes, but only in the separate darkness of man's love for the present, unknowable God.
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Unless we submit our will to the flooding of life, there is no life in us.
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We know that we are living in a state of falsity, that all our social and religious form is dead, a crystallized lie.
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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.
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I am in love - and, my God, it's 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 haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.