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Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.
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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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.
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That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.
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Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.
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The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.
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Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.
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You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.
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No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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