Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything.

—D. H. Lawrence

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About D. H. Lawrence

Portrait of D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons...

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

—D. H. Lawrence

It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.

—D. H. Lawrence

It cuts us off from life, from vitality, from the alive sun and the alive earth, as nothing can. Nothing, not even the most fanatical dogmas of an ironbound religion, can insulate us from the inrush of life and inspiration as money can.

—D. H. Lawrence

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

—D. H. Lawrence

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.

—D. H. Lawrence

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