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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Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presuppose a whole world laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.
loneliness filled-in waiting
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.
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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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It is not a pleasant epoch in one's life - the first forty eight hours at a large public school
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It is as if the life had retreated eastwards. As if the Germanic life were slowly ebbing away from contact with western Europe, ebbing to the deserts of the east.
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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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I would have loved it - without the French
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When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot