English - Writer | September 11, 1885 - March 2, 1930
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
D. H. Lawrence
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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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.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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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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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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