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Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.
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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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
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For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.
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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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