You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

Quote by David Herbert Lawrence

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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.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to...

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to...

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty...

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty...

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than...

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than...

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur...

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur...

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than...

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than...

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it...

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it...

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get...

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get...

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A...

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A...

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as...

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as...

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

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...

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

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...

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...

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't...

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't...