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God is only a great imaginative experience.

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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... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.
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Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.
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That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.
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Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.
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Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.
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You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.
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The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
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What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.
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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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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
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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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It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.
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Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
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