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How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
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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The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
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Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?
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To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.
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Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.
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Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.
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Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
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