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That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

I shall always be a priest of love.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

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.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

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.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behaviour, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

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.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies -- thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

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.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

D. H. Lawrence

1885-1930, British Author

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.

D. J. Enright

1920-, British Poet, Critic

Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

D. T. Niles

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

D.A. Battista

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Dag Hammarskjold