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D.H. Lawrence Quotes

«The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.»
«We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.»
«Every race which has become self-conscious and idea-bound in the past has perished.»
«We know that we are living in a state of falsity, that all our social and religious form is dead, a crystallized lie.»
«God is only a great imaginative experience.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: God | Keywords: imaginative
«All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.»
«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.»
«It is not a pleasant epoch in one's life - the first forty eight hours at a large public school»
«It ought to be lovely to be old, To be full of the peace that comes with experience And wrinkled ripe fulfillment»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Fulfilment | Keywords: be full, wrinkled
«Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.»