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

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

David Herbert Lawrence

Evil

Wickedness

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

David Herbert Lawrence

Mothers

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

David Herbert Lawrence

Morality

End

Garden

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.

David Herbert Lawrence

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

David Herbert Lawrence

Change

Liberty

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

David Herbert Lawrence

Men

Sleep

World

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

David Herbert Lawrence

Past

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

David Herbert Lawrence

Morality

Artist

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

David Herbert Lawrence

Soul

Being

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

David Herbert Lawrence

Spiritual

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

David Herbert Lawrence

Man

Mankind

Study

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

David Herbert Lawrence

The 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.

David Herbert Lawrence

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

David Herbert Lawrence

Giving

Woman