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I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
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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I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.
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Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
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The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
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Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Only the flow matters live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.
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Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.
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For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?
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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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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 man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.
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Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.
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