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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
David Herbert Lawrence
Man
Perfection
Woman
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.
David Herbert Lawrence
Democracy
Light
Nothing
Wages
Water
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
David Herbert Lawrence
Trust
Artist
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
David Herbert Lawrence
Beliefs
Body
Consciousness
Mind
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
David Herbert Lawrence
Beauty
Soul
Needs
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
David Herbert Lawrence
Death
Consciousness
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
David Herbert Lawrence
Business
Home
War
Heart
Artist
Nations
Numbers
Talk
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
David Herbert Lawrence
Business
Actor
Hate
Merriment
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
David Herbert Lawrence
People
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
David Herbert Lawrence
God
Humor
Performance
Being
Blind
Driving
Poets
Sense
Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
David Herbert Lawrence
Angels
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
David Herbert Lawrence
Life
Religion
Heart
Ideals
Tradition
Will
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
David Herbert Lawrence
Love
Desire
Living
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
David Herbert Lawrence
Woman
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
David Herbert Lawrence
Life
Want