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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

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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So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.
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O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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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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I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.
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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
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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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Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
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All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.
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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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