D.H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence was one of the most important English writers of the 20th century.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D.H. Lawrence
I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and White chapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
D.H. Lawrence
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
D.H. Lawrence
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
D.H. Lawrence
We know that we are living in a state of falsity, that all our social and religious form is dead, a crystallized lie.
D.H. Lawrence
I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.... I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
D.H. Lawrence
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
D.H. Lawrence
