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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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 shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.
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A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water.
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The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.
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I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.
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A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.
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Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.
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