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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! "
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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" Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. "
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" I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. "
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" Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. "
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" Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. "
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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. "
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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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" Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. "
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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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" The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. "
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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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" The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. "
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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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" I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. "
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" Men! The only animal in the world to fear. "
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" There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master. "
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" People always make war when they say they love peace. "
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" Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. "
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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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" One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. "
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" When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. "
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" But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. "
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" Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. "
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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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" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "
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