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Explore more quotes by David Herbert Lawrence

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

"One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease."

"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."

"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams."

"I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self."

"I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

"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."
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