Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

Quote by David Herbert Lawrence

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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies...

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies...

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is...

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is...

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so...

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so...

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be...

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be...

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen...

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen...

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd,...

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd,...

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its...

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its...

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to...

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to...

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man...

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man...

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test...

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test...