Collected Meditations
Showing 29 quotesTragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.— D. H. Lawrence
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Truth
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.— D. H. Lawrence
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Trust
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.— D. H. Lawrence
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Romantic
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
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Religion
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.— D. H. Lawrence
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Nature
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.— D. H. Lawrence
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.— D. H. Lawrence
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Intelligence
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.— D. H. Lawrence
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Humor
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.— D. H. Lawrence
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Happiness
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.— D. H. Lawrence
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
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Gardening
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.— D. H. Lawrence
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Freedom
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.— D. H. Lawrence
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Fear