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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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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But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.
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The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.
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I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.
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It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.
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Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
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Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.
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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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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
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Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.
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There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.
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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
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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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Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.
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Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
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She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.
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