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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.
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When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.
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Only the flow matters live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.
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I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.
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Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.
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Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.
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The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.
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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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When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
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I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.
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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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A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.
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Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.
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It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
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A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.
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