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" God is only a great imaginative experience. "
D. H. Lawrence
God
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" The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. "
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" Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. "
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" It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. "
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" The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? "
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" Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. "
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" Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. "
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" It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. "
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" Only in a novel are all things given full play. "
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" The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. "
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" Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. "
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" It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. "
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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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" The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. "
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" This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. "
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