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" I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. "
D. H. Lawrence
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" The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her. "
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" Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. "
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" Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. "
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" They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. "
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" Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. "
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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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" The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. "
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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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" The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. "
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" One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes. "
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" Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. "
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" The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. "
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" Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. "
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" 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. "
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" Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. "
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" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "
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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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" Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. "
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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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" 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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" My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily. "
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" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "
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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 novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. "
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" Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! "
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" The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. "
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