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We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
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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Where sanity is there God is.
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And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.
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In America the chief accusation seems to be one of Eroticism. This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty amours, or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate?
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I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
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While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the purpose be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.
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The mind is ashamed of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.
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While we live, let us live.
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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
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The mind has no existence by itself it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.
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Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.
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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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