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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.
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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We are so conceited and so unproud.
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We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.
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The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
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Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
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Persephone herself is but a voice or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom, among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom.
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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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Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.
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It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.
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How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.
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It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.
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In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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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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