01c. 1907 ADThe 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.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
03c. 1907 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1907 ADTragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
06c. 1907 ADDesign in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
07c. 1907 ADNever 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 / quote ↗
09c. 1907 ADThe essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
10c. 1907 ADOh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
11c. 1907 ADThe business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
12c. 1907 ADI can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
13c. 1907 ADThey say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
15c. 1907 ADMen always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
16c. 1907 ADMen are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
17c. 1907 ADEthics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
18c. 1907 ADThere is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
19c. 1907 ADDo not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
