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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
D. H. Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence
Age: 45 †
Born: 1885
Born: January 1
Died: 1930
Died: January 1
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Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.
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Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
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Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.
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In America the chief accusation seems to be one of Eroticism. This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty amours, or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate?
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Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.
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That's how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.
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