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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
By David Herbert Lawrence
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
By David Herbert Lawrence
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
By David Herbert Lawrence
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
By David Herbert Lawrence
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
By David Herbert Lawrence
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.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
By David Herbert Lawrence
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.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
By David Herbert Lawrence
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
By David Herbert Lawrence
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
By David Herbert Lawrence
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.
By David Herbert Lawrence