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No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.
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 only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.
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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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The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.
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And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.
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Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
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Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.
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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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It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.
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The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
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If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
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I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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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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I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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