D.H. Lawrence quote: "Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth."

In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he ...
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets
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Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment comp...
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You may be the most liberal Liberal Englishman, and yet you cannot fail to see the categorical diffe...
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One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on.
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The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into f...
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We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a grea...
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a go...
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer
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Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death...
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This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be...
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When I want to move, I remember death, how it is ultimate and inevitable, and pure. Then I am free t...
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When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in ...
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, ...
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. W...
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only...
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So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your bo...
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In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha...
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She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.
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But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you beca...
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destr...
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I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE tog...
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a...
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a go...
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, a...
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Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never le...
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When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot
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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the w...
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I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations ba...
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The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much mor...
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain...
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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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No man is or can be purely individual. The mass of men have only the tiniest touch of individuality:...
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it ...
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea o...
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I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze
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It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
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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 ha...
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You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you'r...
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ...
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ethe...
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Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.
'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman i...
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Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the univer...
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On revient toujours a son premier amour." It sounds like a cynicism to-day. As if we really meant: "...
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Life is ours to be spent, not to
be saved.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, t...
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The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most person...
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Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same th...
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And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted c...
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, t...
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists th...
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...
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One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans ... read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Ap...
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If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night
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The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
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The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
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How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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People always make war when they say they love peace
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly...
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Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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To the Puritan all things are impure.
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and...
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is a...
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I would have loved it - without the French
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my a...
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies--thinking that those who care about us w...
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means
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The feelings I don't have I don't have.
The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have.
The...
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is alw...
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No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside.
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The English kill off all their poets by the time they're forty
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea...
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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
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Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never le...
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment
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I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and ...
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What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
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His body was urgent against her, and she didn't have the heart anymore to fight...She saw his eyes, ...
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It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only ...
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And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself for...
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That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into...
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not...
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too ...
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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
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We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."

(Letter to Cyn...
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Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth.

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D.H. Lawrence

Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth.

D.H. Lawrence

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