English - Writer | September 11, 1885 - March 2, 1930
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
D. H. Lawrence
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
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