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For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.
Diary entries (1914)
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way.
Diary entries (1914)
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Diary entries (1914)
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
D. H. Lawrence : An Unprofessional Study (1932)
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Diary entries (1914)
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
Diary entries (1914)
Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance — that is all!
Diary entries (1914)
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
Diary entries (1914)
Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life.
Winter of Artifice (1939)
In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.
Diary entries (1914)
Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
Diary entries (1914)
Ecstasy is the moment of exaltation from wholeness!
Diary entries (1914)
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
Diary entries (1914)
Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers (1996)
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
The dream has to be translated into reality.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
A Spy in the House of Love (1954)
My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
Diary entries (1914)