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" We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. "
D. H. Lawrence
Hate
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" When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. "
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" In every living thing there is the desire for love. "
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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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" The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. "
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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 Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. "
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" The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. "
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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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" 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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" Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. "
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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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" I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. "
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" Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. "
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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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" Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. "
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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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" Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. "
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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 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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