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David Herbert Lawrence Quotes


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.

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

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

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

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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.