“ You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ I 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. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ Design 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. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ Design 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. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Design 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. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
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“ Design 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. ”
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“ I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. ”
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