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

David Herbert Lawrence

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

David Herbert Lawrence

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

David Herbert Lawrence

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

David Herbert Lawrence

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

David Herbert Lawrence

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

David Herbert Lawrence

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.

David Herbert Lawrence

Oh 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!

David Herbert Lawrence

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

David Herbert Lawrence

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

David Herbert Lawrence

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

David Herbert Lawrence

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.

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence