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" All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. "
D. H. Lawrence
Nothing
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" God doesn't know things. He is things. "
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" Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. "
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" The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. "
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" 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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" One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes. "
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" We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. "
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" 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. "
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" Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. "
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" Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. "
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" The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. "
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" The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. "
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" I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. "
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" My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. "
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" Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. "
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" Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. "
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" People always make war when they say they love peace. "
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" The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. "
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" The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. "
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" How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. "
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" Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. "
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" My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. "
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" For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. "
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" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "
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" A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. "
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" Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. "
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" California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. "
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" The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. "
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" Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. "
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