The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
David Herbert Lawrence
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More quotes by David Herbert Lawrence
- Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
- Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
- The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
- The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
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